Yuen Yuen Ang

THE WRITER IS PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, WHERE SHE DIRECTS THE POLYTUNITY PROJECT AND THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD & US-CHINA ROUNDTABLES

Global warming, the defining crisis of our time, is the result of an extractive industrial model.

The global ‘polytunity’

Cascading crises are a rare opportunity for the transformation of development institutions and ideas