Commanding Hope

From Canada's #1 BESTSELLING THOUGHT LEADER: Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.

For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, renowned author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, and The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating environment, extreme economic stresses, the spread of diseases in globally connected systems, mass migrations, and widespread social instability if humankind continued on its current course.

He was called The Doom Meister, but we now see how exact and prescient he was. Today just about everything we’ve known and relied on—our environment, economy, cultures and institutions—is changing quickly and dramatically. Without profound, systemic new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent and more authoritarian.
In his long-awaited new book, he shares his deep knowledge of how societies work and evolve, our cognitive abilities and capacity to handle threats, to show how we can put human civilization onto a new path if we mobilize our minds, imaginations, and core values, and affect change collaboratively. Commanding Hope marshals invigorating, accessible ideas for how to renew our cultures and economies, foster respect for each other, and build an enriched, fair future. A much-needed argument for hope.