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Thomas Homer-Dixon

Freelance Writer

Thomas Homer-Dixon is a political scientist and executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, which runs the Polycrisis.org project. His latest book is Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril, published by Knopf Canada.

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