The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.
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.
Jeremy Rifkint century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.
Jeremy RifkinBeing both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
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