The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and The Renewal of Civilization

Thomas Homer-Dixon’s “Upside of Down” is available as a free PDF on ASPO-Canada’s web site.

Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Edward Schreyer:

I welcome this opportunity to bring to ASPO CANADA

His published works have helped us understand differences between local and regional exploitation and collapse of resources as in the days of antiquity in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean (or medieval Europe, for example) as compared with modern era depletion of a resource on a worldwide basis in a global economy. The consequences of planet-wide depletion of nonrewables (or exhaustion and extinction of living resources and renewables) he brings forward to us for thoughtful consideration