Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributin…

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crud…

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphe…

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are th…

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of polit…

- Thomas Homer-Dixon