I wrote a book about what a small-but-growing number of people call a metacrisis, which is different from a crisis or even a polycrisis. Because it is such a young neologism, I feel inclined to write about the metacrisis concept as an explorer without a map. My goal is to discover new territory, and be one of its cartographers. In short, I prefer to make the following distinctions:

Crisis: A crucial, life-or-death moment of sudden, profound transformation, and a bifurcation between two significan...