This major new work by bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin documents the emergence of a new form of human consciousness - empathy - that is, he argues, the only basis on which we can address the key challenges of the globalizing world of the 21st century.
Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil fuels.
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