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States of Emergency

States of Emergency

December 31, 2021

By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship. How should Canada prepare?

Getting to Enough:
How we’ll solve the dilemma that’s destroying our world

December 1, 2021

Avoiding Mad Max and finding a path to a positive future

Climate Change and Violent Conflict: Reflections after 30 years

September 30, 2021

Presentation to a conference on Climate Change & (In)Security: Trends, Lessons, Challenges. University of Oxford; CHACR, UK Army

Permafrost

Canada’s thawing permafrost should be raising alarm bells in the battle against climate change

June 11, 2021
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Duane Froese

Thomas Homer-Dixon and Duane Froese | Permafrost may seem tucked away in remote northern regions. But what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.

A mob egged on by U.S. President Donald Trump clashes with police at the west entrance of the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

How the United States survived an assault on its democracy – at least for now

January 15, 2021
John Ibbitson and Thomas Homer-Dixon

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol failed to make an autocrat out of Donald Trump, thanks in part to the public shields erected against his dangerous campaign of baseless election-fraud claims.

Interview with Tom Rand

Interview with Tom Rand

December 14, 2020

Watch my video interview with Tom Rand from MaRS Impact Week (32:34)

The Roubini Cascade: Are we heading for a Greater Depression?

December 4, 2020
Michael Lawrence and Thomas Homer-Dixon

This research involves a system map of Nouriel Roubini’s argument that the world is heading into a Greater Depression.

Commanding Hope

There May Yet Be Hope

November 15, 2020
Arno Kopecky

A review of Commanding Hope by the Literary Review of Canada

Coronavirus as portrayed by the CDC

Pandemic Log

September 10, 2020

A running commentary on the unfolding pandemic

The world seems dire. But we must not give up on hope

August 29, 2020

To believe in the possible and to make the possible real, we must recognize that the right kind of hope can be a tool of change, and we must give our hope the muscle it requires in our present crisis.

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