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?
Resources
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.
A big bet on geothermal could help prevent a climate catastrophe
May 27, 2022
Directly under our feet, there’s enough heat emanating from the planet’s core to satisfy humanity’s future zero-carbon electricity needs thousands of times over.
Two things the West must do to lower the probability that Putin will pull the nuclear trigger
March 10, 2022
This time, ‘Mutual Assured Destruction’ might not work. The Russian leader has already shown extreme irrationality in his calamitous choice to start this war.
A report on the : Limits to Growth: The World 3 computer model at 50 – what it got right and what it got wrong
January 12, 2022
Presentation for the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR)
A Warning From a Scholar of Violent Conflict That the U.S. Is Heading for a Dictatorial Takeover
January 12, 2022
Interview on the podcast “Background Briefing with Ian Masters”