“Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.”
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Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon (b. 1956) is a Canadian political scientist and leading scholar in environmental security studies. He currently serves as a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and directs its Environment Institute. Homer-Dixon is renowned for his theory on environmental scarcity and its relationship to social conflict, having significantly influenced how scholars and policymakers understand the security implications of climate change and resource depletion. more