If you want peace, prepare for war – an ancient lesson Canada must remember
March 21, 2025
Thomas Homer-Dixon warns Canadians to prepare for the possibility that Mr. Trump may make demands for territory, backed by the threat of military force.
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Trump redux: Why the returning president is likely to become one of history’s most consequential figures
January 17, 2025
Thomas Homer-Dixon warns that as “reconfigurer-in-chief,” Donald Trump will be, in philosopher Georg Hegel’s terms, a world-historical figure.
Key to Canada’s growth? Recall the role of public money in developing Alberta oil
October 4, 2024
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Emily Smejkal, and Peter Massie
Canada faces two deep-seated, increasingly debilitating economic weaknesses: chronically low productivity growth and a lagging transition away from carbon-based energy sources. Both arise from our poor performance harnessing technological innovation.
Impact 2024: How Donald Trump’s Reelection Could Amplify Global Inter-systemic Risk
October 4, 2024
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Michael Lawrence, Megan Shipman, Luke Kemp
The report precisely assesses how a second Trump administration could supercharge global economic, geopolitical, environmental, and pandemic risks and how those risks could then combine to escalate the world’s already severe polycrisis.
Why so much is going wrong at the same time
October 18, 2023
Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis?
Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement
June 18, 2023
Michael Lawrence, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Scott Janzwood, Johan Rockström, Ortwin Renn, and Jonathan F. Donges
Multiple global crises have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood.
Hope in the Polycrisis
June 12, 2023
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Philip Steenkamp
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon sits down for a talk with Royal Roads University President Philip Steenkamp to explore the complex challenges facing humanity and innovative ideas about how we might solve them.
Earth’s Polycrisis Is No Mere Illusion
February 18, 2023
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Michael Lawrence, and Scott Janzwood
The backlash against the “polycrisis” neologism is well under way. But the polycrisis idea can motivate urgent scientific investigation into the architecture of global crisis interaction.
What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide?
November 13, 2022
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Johan Rockström
Humanity faces a complex knot of seemingly distinct but entangled crises that are causing damage greater than the sum of their individual harms.
Putin isn’t bluffing about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
September 26, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin is forcing the West to play a dangerous game of chicken, and he’s about to throw his steering wheel out the window.