When it comes to the problems plaguing our world, focusing on simple explanations might make things worse

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Open this photo in gallery: An air tanker drops fire retardant on the Eagle Bluff wildfire after it crossed the Canada-U.S. border from the state of Washington and prompted evacuation orders in Osoyoos, B.C., on July 30.JESSE WINTER/Reuters Michael Lawrence is a Polycrisis Research Fellow at the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. Thomas Homer-Dixon is the founder and director of the Cascade Institute and professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. In a June press conference, Ontario Premier Doug Ford dismissed any connection between the province’s raging wildfires and Earth’s warming climate. Noting that “wildfires happen every single year,”...