Getting to enough
Presentation by Thomas Homer-Dixon
A graphical illustration of the dilemma that’s destroying our world—and how we’re going to solve it.
Polycrisis
A hub for the growing polycrisis community
Megan Shipman and Scott Janzwood
Polycrisis program announcement
Polycrisis.org: A hub for a the polycrisis community to converge on priorities for research and action.
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Mapping the global systemic consequences of the Ukraine-Russia war
Systems map by Michael Lawrence
A systems diagram charting the knock-on effects of the Ukraine-Russia War — and the vicious cycles that are emerging from them.
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What happens when a cascade of crises collide?
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Thomas Homer-Dixon and Johan Rockström
The New York Times
Today’s mess is best understood as a global polycrisis—a term which implies that humanity is dealing with a complex knot of seemingly distinct but actually deeply entangled crises.
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What is a global polycrisis?
Michael Lawrence, Scott Janzwood, and Thomas Homer-Dixon
A discussion paper that argues that the concept of “global polycrisis” provides a useful framework with which to understand and address major problems afflicting humanity today.
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Instead of lurching from one catastrophe to the next, B.C. needs to understand how its crises are linked
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Robin Cox
The Globe and Mail
We need to improve how we marshal, integrate, apply and communicate the best knowledge about B.C.’s emerging risks – those known and anticipated, as well as those unexpected and even currently unimaginable.
The global systemic consequences of the Ukraine-Russia War: Part I
Cascade Institute
Ukraine-Russia War Expert Panel
The first briefing of the Ukraine-Russia War Expert Panel
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A call for an international research program on the risk of a global polycrisis
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Ortwin Renn, Johan Rockström, Jonathan F. Donges, and Scott Janzwood
A paper calling for a research program to investigate this moment’s seemingly sharp amplification, acceleration, and synchronization of systemic risks.
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Max – a thought experiment: Could AI run the economy better than markets?
Edward A. (Ted) Parson
This paper explores how recent advances in AI have re-opened questions around the feasibility and desirability of central economic planning. It presents a thought experiment about how an AI-directed economy might work, based on a powerful AI agent (whimsically named “Max”).
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