Jeremy Rifkin

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But to frame what we are about to explore, we should probably look at a quote directly from the sources by the author Jeremy Rifkin.

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He writes, uh, "Scientists will be able to create new transgenic organisms by manipulating genetic material in a totally isolated laboratory environment and then release the transgenic creatures into Earth's many ecosystems."

They are both trapped in bodies that demand a terrifying level of intimacy with a world they just wanna hide from.

It is a brilliant thematic mirror.

When we step back and look at the world the author has constructed, we see a complex, hidden ecosystem of post-humanity.

You have the Tacken, engineered anomalies waiting for trauma to activate their potential.

Now, what is the life that we're to die to, and what is the life that we're called to embrace? Well, I'm gonna give you two quotations.

The first is from a man called Jeremy Rifkin, born 1945.

He's an extremely influential American econo- economist, social theorist, author, activist, a very influential person in the modern world.

He spoke these words in 1983, "We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else's home, and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform to a set of preexisting cosmic rules.

Buckley Jr., who hosted this program originally, had several debates about the moral virtue of capitalism.

Uh, and in 1976, an e- economic theorist named Jeremy Rifkin, he argued that corporations put profits ahead of people.

Here's what he said.

Uh, the opinion survey suggests that the American people, uh, believe that what's good for GM is not necessarily good for the American people.

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Should greens dump artificial intelligence? Author Jeremy Rifkin on his latest book, Rescuing the Future: Reimagining Artificial Intelligence in a World on the Edge.

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We will dive right in with new visions from Jeremy Rifkin, followed by my comments and then hot sea news.

Should greens dump artificial intelligence? Long-standing author and activist Jeremy Rifkin says AI might help us emerge from this crisis with a better future.

And no one is understanding how much we are connected with water, how much we are living, uh, in a real Planet Aqua.

And when last year we had Jeremy Rifkin talking at the Venice Climate Week, the first year actually, he was pushing us to reflect that we need to shift our mindset thinking in a bioregional way, that there are not only political borders, but we are sharing rivers, sharing responsibility, sharing all the things that are happening in our life, and we know how much we depend on water.

Our life is depending on water.

And in Pollica we had the chance to, to, to work on that a lot, also connecting, uh, the health of our ecosystem to the fertility and longevity and the mental health.

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in the, the past edition we had, like, Cave Madani, Sylvia Earle, Paul Polman, Jeremy Rifkin.

It's so important that these young people can talk to them and go back to their territories and, and make the change that we need.

So there's definitely something there.

I mean, was it Jeremy Rifkin, the hydrogen economy that was about, I think, 2000, maybe 2000? 2003.

In fact,

the funny thing is his book came out and it had already become clear to the energy sector that this was a big fat nothing burger.

Like even in the 70s, there was even a leftist version of Bicentennial commemoration.

There was this group called the People's Bicentennial Commission that was led by a guy named Jeremy Rifkin, I think, was the guy who was a well-known left wing activist at the time.

And so he was sort of using this group was using the bicentennial to promote more left wing ideals, you know, saying, well, we're the true Americans, you know, like, you know, we just want America to live up to its ideals and that kind of thing.

You wouldn't really see that much today.