Comments on: Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon on Upside of Down http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/11/13/interview-with-thomas-homer-dixon-on-upside-of-down/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Thomas Homer-Dixon http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/11/13/interview-with-thomas-homer-dixon-on-upside-of-down/#comment-3178 Thomas Homer-Dixon Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:32:05 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=277#comment-3178 I indeed make exactly that kind of argument -- in chapter 11 of The Upside of Down -- that very low autonomy reduces resilience, as does very high autonomy. The greatest resilience is achieved somewhere in the middle between the two extremes. I indeed make exactly that kind of argument — in chapter 11 of The Upside of Down — that very low autonomy reduces resilience, as does very high autonomy. The greatest resilience is achieved somewhere in the middle between the two extremes.

]]> By: Garry Peterson http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/11/13/interview-with-thomas-homer-dixon-on-upside-of-down/#comment-1094 Garry Peterson Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:57 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=277#comment-1094 Homer-Dixon talk about that issue in his interview with the Tyee, which is linked to <a href="http://resilience.geog.mcgill.ca/blog/index.php/2006/11/19/embrace-the-collapse-another-homer-dixon-interview/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Many fewer people could live on the planet if we all tried to do it alone. But a few people living off the grid adds something to the whole. I think he would argue that there is an inverted u shaped curve between autonomy and resilience. Homer-Dixon talk about that issue in his interview with the Tyee, which is linked to here.

Many fewer people could live on the planet if we all tried to do it alone.
But a few people living off the grid adds something to the whole.

I think he would argue that there is an inverted u shaped curve between autonomy and resilience.

]]> By: Nick Rosen http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/11/13/interview-with-thomas-homer-dixon-on-upside-of-down/#comment-1093 Nick Rosen Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:11:05 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=277#comment-1093 Elsewhere in the same interview (of which the above is an excerpt) Thomas says he is not advocating 100% autonomy but something close to it. As a supporter, nay fan, of his work and of the Resilience Alliance and of Panarchy, I wonder why he is not advocating 100% autonomy. If partial autonomy increases resilience, then surely 100% autonomy increases reslience even more. Does Thomas draw back from this argument because living off-grid is too wacky, even though it is perhaps the right answer? Is it that he is already way out on a limb and the logical implications of his argument are too extreme even for him to bear? I would love to know his answer to that question. Elsewhere in the same interview (of which the above is an excerpt) Thomas says he is not advocating 100% autonomy but something close to it. As a supporter, nay fan, of his work and of the Resilience Alliance and of
Panarchy, I wonder why he is not advocating 100% autonomy. If partial autonomy increases resilience, then surely 100% autonomy increases reslience even more. Does Thomas draw back from this argument because living off-grid is too wacky, even though it is perhaps the right answer? Is it that he is already way out on a limb and the logical implications of his argument are too extreme even for him to bear?

I would love to know his answer to that question.

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