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Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956) is a Canadian political scientist and ecologist, and Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business University of Waterloo in the Faculty of Environment, with a cross-appointment to the Political Science Department in the Faculty of Arts. He is particularly known for his work on environmental scarcities and violent conflicts. He is well known for his work to broaden the Malthusian theory to include vital resources such as fuel, arable land, and other resources including food. He is a proud Neo-Malthusian along with Paul Ehrlich and Robert Kaplan.

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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 crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

America, Environmental, Extracting, Oil, Processing, Tar

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 atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

Atmosphere, Co2, Environmental, Hen, Hens, Price

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 they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?

Average, Beings, Nature, Problem, Smart

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.

Access, Changed, People, Phone, Phones, Technology

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.

Mobilization, Operation, Opportunity, Reality, Rural, Technology

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