How to Stay Sane in a Burning World: The Four Neural States of the Polycrisis

Climate scientist Wolfgang Knorr maps how our nervous systems get locked between panic and shutdown when facing inescapable crises — and argues that surviving the polycrisis requires deliberately moving between four neural states rather than getting stuck in chronic activation or denial.

Why this matters → The climate and governance movement spends enormous energy on information; Knorr suggests the real barrier is neurological, not informational — and that changes what effective strategy looks like.