Thomas Homer-Dixon

























Thomas Homer-Dixon

General Writing Email Thomas Homer-Dixon


Books Published

Ingenuity Gap

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Carbon Shift:  How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon


Selected Articles by Subject

Societal Collapse:

"When Wise Words Are Not Enough," Nature, March 19, 2009. PDF document

"Prepare Today for Tomorrow's Breakdown," Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, May 14, 2007. PDF document

Energy:

"The Enticements of Green Carrots," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 9, 2009. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Friedmann, Julio S., "Clean Coal? Go Underground, Alberta," Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, May 4, 2009. PDF document

"A Win-Win-Win Situation," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, March 8, 2008. PDF document

"The Age of Cheap Oil is Ending," Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, August 6, 2007. PDF document

"The End of Ingenuity," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

"Caught Up in Our Own Connections," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, August 13, 2005.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Friedmann, Julio S., "Coal in a Nice Shade of Green," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, March 25, 2005.

Friedmann, Julio S., and Homer-Dixon, Thomas, "Out of the Energy Box," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2004) pp. 72-83. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Wolfe, Sarah, "The Matrix of Our Troubles," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 16, 2003. PDF document

"Bringing Ingenuity to Energy," in Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds., Fueling the Future: How the Battle over Energy is Changing Everything, (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2003). PDF document

"An Open Letter to the Premier of Alberta," Toronto Globe and Mail, October 31, 2002. PDF document

Terrorism:

"Pull up Terrorism by the Roots," Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, September 11, 2006. PDF document

"Brittle Cities are Easily Broken," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, July 23, 2005. PDF document

"The Rise of Complex Terrorism," - Foreign Policy, January/February 2002. PDF document

"Why Root Causes are Important (Published title: We Ignore Misery at Our Peril)," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 26, 2001. PDF document

"Now Comes the Real Danger," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 12, 2001. PDF document

War:

"War: Which Way to Turn?," Toronto Globe and Mail, February 8, 2003. PDF document

"The Virulence of Violence: Small Arms, Many Wars, Large Threat," Washington Post, February 4, 2001. PDF document

Economics:

"Fear is Good," Toronto Globe and Mail, April 4, 2009. PDF document

"The Stag Hunt: Deflation as a Collective Action Problem," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 26, 2008. PDF document

"Unbounded uncertainty #2," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 26, 2008. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Wolfe, Sarah, "Everything is not Peachy," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 18, 2008. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Elgie, Stewart, "We Must Green the Market," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 6, 2008. PDF document

"From Risk to Uncertainty," Toronto Globe and Mail, March 19, 2008. PDF document

"Unbounded uncertainty #1," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 14, 2007. PDF document

"The End of Ingenuity," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, November 29, 2006.

"The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Squat," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, July 30, 2005. PDF document

"A Midas Touch Dims," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 10, 2002. PDF document

"How to put a Brake on Currency Volatility," Toronto Globe and Mail, July 8, 1996. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas; co-author Bienenstock, Robin. End of Pop-Economics," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 2, 1998. PDF document

Climate Change:

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Weaver, Andrew, "Responding to the Skeptics," Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, December 7, 2009.

"Climate Change, the Arctic, and Canada: Avoiding Yesterday's Analysis of Tomorrow's Crisis," 20th Anniversary Conference of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday, October 30, 2008. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Keith, David, "Blocking the Sky to Save the Earth," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Saturday, September 20, 2008.

"A Win-Win-Win Situation," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, March 8, 2008. PDF document

"Positive Feedbacks, Dynamic Ice Sheets, and the Recarbonization of the Global Fuel Supply: The New Sense of Urgency about Global Warming," A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2008. PDF document

"With Cracks and Holes in the Greenland Ice Sheet, we may well have to "Geo-Engineer" the Climate," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 1, 2007. PDF document

"A Swiftly Melting Planet," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Thursday, October 4, 2007.

"Terror in the Weather Forecast," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

"The End of Ingenuity," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

"Unleash Capitalism's Creativity on Climate Change," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 21, 2006. PDF document

Risbey, James, Braganza, Karl, and Homer-Dixon, Thomas,
"Ahead: more — and worse — Katrinas," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 19, 2005 PDF document

"Cold Truths about Global Warming," Toronto Globe and Mail, February 16, 2004. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas; Braganza, Karl; Karoly, David; and Risbey, James, "Response to Baliunas et al.," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 25, 2002. PDF document

"How to Deal with a Major League Ice-Hole," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 29, 2000. PDF document

Environmental Stress and Conflict:

"Climate Change, the Arctic, and Canada: Avoiding Yesterday's Analysis of Tomorrow's Crisis," 20th Anniversary Conference of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday, October 30, 2008. PDF document

"Terror in the Weather Forecast," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

"The Myth of Global Water Wars," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 9, 1995. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, Boutwell, Jeffrey and Rathjens, George, "Environmental Change and Violent Conflict," Scientific American, February 1993. PDF document

"Is Anarchy Coming? A Response to the Optimists," Toronto Globe and Mail, May 10, 1994. PDF document

"Destruction and Death: As Resources Are Wasted, Mass Violence Will Rise," New York Times, Sunday, January 31, 1992. PDF document

Demographic Change:

"Of Human Fallout," Worth, January 2004. PDF document

"Why Population Growth Still Matters," Toronto Globe and Mail, March 6, 2002. PDF document

Psychology:

"Fear is Good," Toronto Globe and Mail, April 4, 2009. PDF document

"Blink. Snap. Buzz.," Review of Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, Toronto Globe and Mail, January 8, 2005. PDF document

Leadership, Politics, and Democracy:

"September 11 and the Crisis of Expertise," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 11, 2002. PDF document

"Old Political Machines, Hi-Tech Riders," Toronto Globe and Mail, January 17, 2001. PDF document

"Leadership Captive," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 24, 2000. PDF document

Education:

"We Ignore Scientific Literacy at Our Peril," The Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 2001. PDF document

"On the Razor's Edge: Today's Graduates Are Entering a Winner-Take-All World, And Most Are Painfully Aware They've Already Lost the Game,"," Toronto Globe and Mail, June 17, 2000. PDF document

"What to do with a "Soft" Degree in a Hard Job Market," Toronto Globe and Mail, April 1, 1996. PDF document

System Resilience:

"Caught Up in Our Own Connections," New York Times, Editorial / Opinion, August 13, 2005.

"Brittle Cities are Easily Broken," Toronto Globe and Mail, Saturday, July 23, 2005. PDF document

Homer-Dixon, Thomas, and Wolfe, Sarah, "The Matrix of Our Troubles," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 16, 2003. PDF document

"We Need a Forest of Tongues," Toronto Globe and Mail, July 3, 2001. PDF document

China:

"China's Challenge," Maclean's, September 4, 1995. PDF document

The Ingenuity Gap:

"A World That Turns Too Fast," Financial Times, London, January 2, 2001. PDF document

"The Ingenuity Gap in a Fragmented World," Address to Banff TV Festival, June 11, 2001. PDF document