Various metacrisis communities

Various metacrisis communities represent a loosely-coordinated ecosystem of researchers, practitioners, and organizations focused on understanding and addressing interconnected global risks—including existential threats, systemic collapse scenarios, and complex cascading failures. These communities span academia, think tanks, nonprofits, and independent research groups, often emphasizing systems thinking, long-termism, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The term 'metacrisis' itself refers to the observation that multiple crises (climate, biodiversity, geopolitical instability, technological disruption) are deeply entangled and cannot be solved in isolation. Communities working on this space typically draw on complexity science, futures studies, and risk analysis. Notable nodes include the Future of Humanity Institute, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, various effective altruism organizations, and informal research collectives.

These communities lack a single headquarters or formal governance structure; instead, they coordinate through conferences, online forums, shared publications, and collaborative research initiatives. Their influence has grown as mainstream institutions increasingly recognize the need for integrated approaches to global risk.