Climate Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

9 Climate quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin offers nine short reflections on climate, blending his futurist outlook with practical concerns. This concise collection serves as a quick primer for anyone curious about his vision.

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“In Germany, a gas- or coal-fired power plant that might cost $1 billion to build, but that will no longer run at…

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We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and…

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The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy,…

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Solar and wind are now cheaper in many places than some fossil fuels and within the next two years, three, four, five…

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“This means that for the past thirty years, we have been wasting 86 percent of the energy we use in the production…

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Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to…

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t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest…

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“But what if I were to say to you that 25 years from now, the bulk of the energy you use to…

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The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our…

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President Obama, I voted for him. I think he's a mature politician, but here's what happened. Obama wanted a green economy. He spent billions…

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The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the…

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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of…

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The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

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Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

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“consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857,…

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Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to…

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“When I empathize, I feel the frailty and transitory nature of another's existence. To empathize is to root for the other to flourish and…

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Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

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What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day,…

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