Crisis analysis: How much damage can Trump do? (A lot)
March 19, 2017
This structured analysis of crisis risks arising from the Trump presidency was published in 2017, but it remains relevant to a potential second Trump presidency in 2025.
Resources
How Climate Change’s Effect on Agriculture can Lead to War
February 17, 2017
by Ryan Bort | On February 12, the temperature in Magnum, Oklahoma, reached 100 degrees. It was a state record for the month of February, besting a mark that was set in 1918. The average February high in Magnum is 56.
World Government Summit
February 12, 2017
This February 2017, Thomas Homer-Dixon spoke at the World Government Summit on “Climate Change and Food Supply.”
Canada Must not Give Up the Fight on Climate Change
January 2, 2017
Those of us concerned about climate change generally inhabit an old-fashioned reality-based world. Scientific research and evidence drive our concern. Although we wish the climate problem would vanish, that motivation doesn’t override what science tells us.
President Trump Will Make Chaos the New Normal
November 24, 2016
During the election campaign, Donald Trump made the normalization of abnormality a signature political tactic. The more he violated the conventions of U.S. political life, democratic practice and civil discourse, the more he excited his followers.
Trump’s path to a dictatorship: predicted in October 2016
October 17, 2016
Jack Goldstone and Thomas Homer-Dixon
with Jack Goldstone | Domestic disorder could become severe and widespread enough to allow Mr. Trump to claim authority under either the National Emergencies Act or the Insurrection Act to issue executive orders to deploy troops, federalize the National Guard or suspend basic rights.
How Alberta could champion a new energy source
August 8, 2016
Albertans may well wonder if a plague of locusts will come next. From the 2013 floods, to the oil price collapse and the resulting fiscal crisis, to the Fort McMurray fires, the province has taken some heavy blows.
Start the Leap revolution without me
April 22, 2016
The Leap Manifesto is a Rorschach ink-blot test of one’s political and economic ideology.
What is really at stake in extremist attacks
January 25, 2016
We’ve been lucky so far, because the bad guys have usually been stupid. But they probably won’t be stupid forever, so our luck probably won’t last. When it finally runs out, we need to make sure we don’t do the bad guys’ work for them.
Don’t Peddle Climate Fantasies
December 14, 2015
The French have pulled a rabbit out of the climate hat in Paris. It’s a rather incomplete rabbit, because it’s missing bits and pieces – an ear here, a foot there. But it has a heartbeat, and it’s recognizable as a rabbit all the same.