All Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
- James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… Age
- We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can… Allows
- The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. Cheap
- Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… Acknowledge
- If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn. Corn
- What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography… Biosphere
- What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that… Absolutely
- Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. Communication
- We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere… All
- In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store… Across
- The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of… Affiliation
- We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to… Completed
- We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on… Age
- We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology. Age
- The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past… Agriculture
- The world's environment can no longer handle beef. Beef
- It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That… Companies
- It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second-… Babies
- Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and… Acquisitiveness
- Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough… Animal
- Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of… Amassing
- Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. Beings
- Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are… Based
- Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? Avert
- The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be… Agricultural