Thomas Homer-Dixon Op-Ed ContributionsThomas Homer-Dixon Op-Ed Contributions
Our peak oil premium
CIGI Chair of Global System Thomas Homer-Dixon writes on "Our peak oil premium." He argues that we're much closer to an oil peak than most people acknowledge.
We’re losing our past to technology
"Today’s information technology is creating what we might call an Age of Ephemera. Our unprecedented ability to store and transfer gargantuan amounts of information obscures this information’s modern fragility," argues Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs
Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit
In an op-ed to The Globe and Mail, CIGI Chair of Global Systems Thomas Homer-Dixon writes that "dealing with climate change is a prerequisite for prosperity this century – for all people on this planet."
Our Fukushima moment
Drawing parallels and contrasts to Chernobyl, CIGI Chair Thomas Homer-Dixon comments on what the nuclear crisis unfolding in Fukushima, Japan, will mean to the world in 2036. "Fukushima isn’t Chernobyl," he writes. "But it’s an unmitigated disaster, all the same."
And now the weather: nasty and brutish
People who think this winter’s brutish weather proves climate change isn’t real might want to think again, writes CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Thomas Homer-Dixon, in The Globe and Mail.
Clean coal? Go underground, Alberta
Alberta appears to be in a box - an energy box - that constrains policy options in every direction. The province's wealth is critically tied to exploitation of its vast hydrocarbon resources. But faced with declining reserves of conventional oil and natural gas, it has been forced to turn increasingly to the tar sands, which pack a huge carbon punch. And in a warming world, carbon is seen as a menace. The strategy could severely crimp Alberta's ability to sell energy at home and abroad, even make it a pariah.
Deflation's big game
When the economy spirals downward, it feeds on itself. But if we set our sights on the right prize, we can work together to prevent things from getting even worse
The ultimate sun-block
To the relief of climate scientists around the world, it appears that the polar ice cap hasn't shrunk as much this summer as it did last summer.
Unbounded uncertainty
There has been something deeply disconcerting about the negotiations of the past few days in Washington to bail out the U.S. financial system: The best and brightest of policy and economic elites have seemed out of their depth.