escalating financial, ecological, resource, and public health crises are already and increasingly disrupting societies and plunging economies into deep recessions (e.g. the 1970s oil crises, the 2008/2009 financial crisis, the Covid-19 crisis)

- Can the "escalation" of such crises be quantified? How do they compare in magnitude and frequence with past crises (e.g., global 1930s recession, WWI, WWII, cold war)