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Jeremy Rifkin: "Resilience is what will save us"

2022-10-20T18:42:47.591Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - On a changing planet, it is we who will have to adapt, plus the Earth. In any case, this is what this great economist thinks who, in his new essay, promotes an economy positioning itself on the side of life.


By Eugenio Occorsio (la Repubblica)

 This cursed war surprised the planet just when it was finally embarking on the path of sustainable development.

But instead of the third industrial revolution, that of the digital age, today we are talking about the third world war.

Yet we must hold on and do the impossible to overcome climate change, which is causing irreversible damage. 

Never give up is the mantra of Jeremy Rifkin, economist, sociologist and activist born in 1945. His latest book,

The Age of Resilience

, is the summary of a long journey through good causes: Rifkin began in 1967 with the marches for Vietnam, then officiated as a standard bearer for the Volunteers in Service to America (the anti-racist movement created by John Kennedy ) and has now become the point of reference for environmental movements around the world.

 In the era of resilience 

”, he explains to us via Zoom from…

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Source: lefigaro

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