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The term crisis is ubiquitous in descriptions of the problems of our time. Living in the crisis years of 1930s Germany, philosopher Edmund Husserl understood the crisis of his time as a crisis of the sciences. By losing themselves in hyperspecialized worlds of mathematical abstraction, sciences lost sight of the everyday, practical problems of human beings, even though these practical problems constitute the originary impetus from which these sciences departed. This leads to a situation in which all of our ethical, existential and political questions and concerns come to lie outside of the field of science. In this article I will explain Husserl’s idea of a crisis of the sciences, what caused it, and the solution he sees in the form of his own phenomenological philosophy as a science of the life-world. I will furthermore explore the ways in which Husserl’s analysis can be helpful in understanding the myriad of crises we find ourselves in today, specifically focusing on the current climate crisis.