Learning Salon Series: Our world’s cascading crises. What is driving them, are they going to get worse, and can they be stopped?
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Michael Lawrence
Learning Salon Series
The underlying mechanisms of cascading crises.
News
Review of Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril, a new book by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Cascade Institute
Arno Kopecky
Book Review in The Literary Review of Canada
There May Yet Be Hope: The future is not set in stone (a review of Thomas Homer-Dixon’s 2020 book, Commanding Hope)
However the pandemic unfolds, it’s time for oil use to peak—and society to prepare for the fallout
Yonatan Strauch, Angela Carter, and Thomas Homer-Dixon
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Peak oil demand represents a crucial tipping point in the global clean energy transition – and will signal a moment when an accumulation of forces unleashes a torrent of change.
Colliding crises can’t be handled with one-track solutions
Scott Janzwood
The Globe and Mail
The key to minimizing the harm from compound risks is to decrease their connectivity.
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Coronavirus will change the world. It might also lead to a better future
Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Globe and Mail
The Coronavirus pandemic could help catalyze an urgently needed tipping event in humanity’s collective moral values, priorities and sense of self and community.
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