Thomas Homer-Dixon
Autore di The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Sull'Autore
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
Opere di Thomas Homer-Dixon
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Homer-Dixon, Thomas Fraser
- Altri nomi
- Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.
Homer-Dixon, Fraser - Data di nascita
- 1956-04-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Istruzione
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD | Political Science | 1989)
Carleton University (BA | Political Science | 1980) - Attività lavorative
- political scientist
ecologist - Organizzazioni
- University of Toronto
University of Waterloo - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Governor General's Non-Fiction Award (2001)
Caldwell Prize (2000)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 800
- Popolarità
- #31,872
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 36
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)