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Basic income could provide the breathing space so many need
It could offer a hopeful, stabilizing force in an era of destabilization

By Jamie Swift and Elaine Power





Scientists say we have entered an age of global “polycrisis": food and housing insecurity; climate breakdown; stagflation; environmental degradation; war; ideological extremism; authoritarian politics and a crisis of democracy; massive economic inequality; and a general mistrust of institutions.

Each would be bad enough on its own. The polycrisis, however, signals the deep interconnections of systems — political and economic, environmental and cultural — under stress. A crisis in one system produces crises in the others.


“Will we leave each other to sink or swim, or will we buoy strangers through life’s rough waters?” asks Astra Taylor.





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