Hope in the Polycrisis
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.
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A report on the : Limits to Growth: The World 3 computer model at 50 – what it got right and what it got wrong
Presentation for the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR)
Climate Change and Violent Conflict: Reflections after 30 years
Presentation to a conference on Climate Change & (In)Security: Trends, Lessons, Challenges. University of Oxford; CHACR, UK Army
World Government Summit
This February 2017, Thomas Homer-Dixon spoke at the World Government Summit on “Climate Change and Food Supply.”
Growth, Environmental Damage, and Innovation
A presentation at the Annual Conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Toronto
Catastrophic Dehumanization: the Psychological Dynamics of Severe Conflict
Dehumanization is arguably a defining feature of the most brutal acts of human violence, such as saturation bombardment of civilian populations, terrorist attacks on urban centers, intense battlefield combat, and genocide.