Thomas Homer-Dixon
Auteur de The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
A propos de l'auteur
Thomas Homer-Dixon is author of Environment, Scarcity, and Violence and The Ingenuity Gap, winner of Canada's prestigious Governor-General's Award of Non-Fiction
Œuvres de Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and… (2000) 331 exemplaires
Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future (2009) 32 exemplaires
Der heilsame Schock: Wie der Klimawandel unsere Gesellschaft zum Guten verändert (2010) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Homer-Dixon, Thomas Fraser
- Autres noms
- Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.
Homer-Dixon, Fraser - Date de naissance
- 1956-04-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Études
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD | Political Science | 1989)
Carleton University (BA | Political Science | 1980) - Professions
- political scientist
ecologist - Organisations
- University of Toronto
University of Waterloo - Prix et distinctions
- Governor General's Non-Fiction Award (2001)
Caldwell Prize (2000)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 795
- Popularité
- #32,058
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 36
- Langues
- 2
He lists the following "tectonic stresses" that he believes are building inexorably below the foundations of our societies: 1) population stress - not only growth but differing rates of growth between rich and poor societies; 2) energy stress - above all "peak oil" which seems to be almost upon us now; 3) environmental stress; 4) climate stress; and 5) economic stress resulting from instabilities in the global economic system and ever-widening wealth disparities within and between societies. Homer-Dixon's argument is that our global societies, tightly coupled and interdependent as they are and testing the limits of the ecosphere as they are, are vulnerable to synchronous shocks along any of the five fault lines outlined above.
The last chapters' posture is optimistic, but the project to restore resilience that he proposes is daunting, requiring global co-operation on an unprecedented level. Example: "...a value system that makes endless growth the primary source of our social stability and spiritual well-being will destroy us", but "growth, even in already obscenely rich societies, is sacrosanct." Can you envisage our political and economic elites willingly leading our societies into a different paradigm? I can't.… (plus d'informations)