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It has become commonplace to suggest that Europe faces a rolling, accumulating and interconnected ‘polycrisis’: the climate and biodiversity catastrophe, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ravages of inflation and the growing human flow desperately seeking a haven within the continent—not forgetting the possibility of new waves of global pandemic. These books variously offer explanations and prescriptions—which also turn out to be interlinked—for aspects of Europe’s ‘polycrisis’ and how to surmount it. Above: A helicopter preparing to douse a forest fire with water in Huelva, Spain