Jeremy RifkinThe prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.371Humor
Jeremy RifkinTurning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. ✨ 'The Empathic Civilization&rs… ▶375HumanityThought
Jeremy RifkinYou can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.345Love
Jeremy RifkinWhat type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commo… ▶335Life
Jeremy RifkinThe 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 scientists, … ▶324PoliticsTruth
Jeremy RifkinCan we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? ✨ Jeremy Rifkin (2010). The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousn… ▶302HumanityTime
Jeremy RifkinThe 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 examples of violence… ▶358HumanityTime
Jeremy RifkinIt 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 defies logic.369Life
Jeremy RifkinThe revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distri… ▶292Politics
Jeremy RifkinThe public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those gen… ▶348Reflection
Jeremy RifkinIt seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ig… ▶305DeathReading
Jeremy RifkinToday we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence. … ▶307LifePolitics
Jeremy RifkinStarvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way … ▶274DeathHumanity
Jeremy RifkinMany of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships … ▶242Life
Jeremy RifkinThe hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by glo… ▶231HumanityPolitics
Jeremy RifkinThey're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.264Sadness
Jeremy RifkinHumanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process… ▶233HumanityLife
Jeremy RifkinWe're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a s… ▶191Reflection
Jeremy RifkinWe are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.226Reading
Jeremy RifkinGenerations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. ✨ Jeremy Rifkin (2011). The Third Industrial Revol… ▶237HumanityPolitics
Jeremy RifkinThe Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole o… ▶194HumanityLifeThought
Jeremy RifkinIf your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.194Death
Jeremy RifkinBack in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.172Politics
Jeremy RifkinUsing 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 defining fe… ▶228Humanity
Jeremy RifkinThe industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled genetically engineered, the public will shy away and won't take them.228Life
Jeremy RifkinThe world's environment can no longer handle beef.141Hope
Jeremy RifkinThe position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.196Time
Jeremy RifkinBasic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.141Humanity
Jeremy RifkinEconomic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces… ▶152HumanityLife
Jeremy RifkinWhat makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by… ▶142HumanityLife
