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> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action.
by palae 5y ago
> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action.
That is your definition, but not necessarily the one meant by others. From Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis):
"Essential Meaning of crisis
: a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention"
[...] Definition 3b: "a situation that has reached a critical phase // the environmental crisis"
- gyulai 5y agoMy point exactly. The dictionary editors must have noticed that "environmental crisis" entered into common parlance, and didn't fit the pre-existing definitions of "crisis", so they had to invent a new definition to be able to cover it. Besides: The definition is a really bad one, as it's circular.
- palae 5y agoWhat about the "essential meaning"? It's non-circular and (to me) fitting.