permacrisis

plural permacrises

1. A permanent crisis, one that continually drags on.

   In the age of permacrisis, the world we live in will continue to be characterised by high levels of uncertainty, fragility and unpredictability.

   2021, Ricardo Borges de Castro, “Anticipatory democracy: Harnessing the power of people and strategic foresight”, in European Policy Centre

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   Europe 1992 must be understood as an effort by European governments and business elites to meet the permacrisis of slowed growth and higher levels of unemployment; respond to the changing American and Japanese capabilities; and promote their collective position in the international order.

   1994, John Zysman, “Korean Choices and Patterns of Advanced Country Development”, in Lee-Jay Cho, Yoon Hyung Kim, editors, Korea's Political Economy: An Institutional Perspective, Routledge, published 2018, page 170

   Agriculture continued to be in permacrisis, and shortages of consumer goods were customary, but exports of energy and materials, at least until 1986, were providing a hard currency cushion for remedial imports, so that the living conditions of Soviet citizens were better, not worse, in the mid-1980s than a decade earlier.

   1998, Manuel Castells, End of Millennium, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2010, pages 7–8

   It is reported that searches for gaslighting on Merriam-Webster’s website increased 17-fold in 2022 compared with 2021. Let us hope that this is a momentary blip and does not imply a permacrisis of deceit.

   2022 December 12, Paul Warren, “Language Matters: Going into goblin mode to see you through a permacrisis”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022