Thomas Homer-Dixon - CBC

******************************************************************************* TVO - Big Ideas Thomas Homer-Dixon ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: lectures More Information.....: (none) Part Size............: 15,000,000 bytes Number of Parts......: 25 Archive Format.......: RAR Part Recovery Method.: PAR2 PAR2 Blocks Provided.: 96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source...............: NTSC CABLE AVI Size.............: 360,540,160 bytes Duration.............: 00:58:15 FPS..................: 29.97 Video Codec..........: XviD Codec DCT......: H263 QPel...........: No GMC............: No Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR) Video Resolution.....: 640x464 Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379 Audio Format.........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92 Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR) Hz...................: 48000 Channels.............: Stereo Captured by..........: festering leper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ancient African empire of Ghana reached its zenith and its limits. Its overabundant gold mines were showing signs of exhaustion. Its massive cities were bursting at the seams. The Sahara begun to take over the grass lands. The empire faced new enemies ready to attack the state at the first sign of weakness. Ghana decided to attack another city. Some would say this is the way empires deal with decline. They try to hide it behind aggression. Thomas Homer-Dixon made a career out of studying demise, destruction, call it what you will. He's not precisely a doom-sayer but certainly he's a student of danger. He is the director of the Trudeau Centre For Peace And Conflict Studies and professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto and he's also the author of the recently published "The Upside Of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, And The Renewal Of Civilization" In it, he outlines conditions which represent the most serious dangers to life as we know it. --

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