The rise of the Age of Resilience - A Jeremy Rifkin lecture

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The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, the Earth is rewilding, and humankind begins to realise it never controlled Earth and that nature is far more formidable than originally thought. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending, argues economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin.
During an online lecture organised by the House of European History, Rifkin analysed the characteristics of what he has termed the Age of Progress where efficiency was the gold standard for organising time. The social theorist believes that efficiency has locked humans in a quest to optimize the expropriation of the Earth’s bounty at the expense of nature. Human beings emerged as the dominant species on the planet at the expense of the natural world.
Rifkin also noted that in the emerging era, the Age of Resilience, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity. The younger generation, according to the American theorist and activist, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalisation to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy.
Future generations, suggested Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem.
In the light of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the House of European History organised an online lecture series entitled ‘Envisioning Europe.’ Jeremy Rifkin’s lecture, and two more in October and December 2023, are an extension of the series.
- Introduction by Guido Gerrichhauzen, learning team, House of European History
- Moderation by Annette Van Soest, journalist, presenter and photographer.
Jeremy Rifkin is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 21 bestselling books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. The books have been translated into more than 35 languages. His most recent books include the international bestsellers, The Age of Resilience (2022), The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic Civilization (2010) and The European Dream (2004). Rifkin has been an advisor to the leadership of the European Union since 2000. He has European Commission and European Parliament Presidents and numerous EU heads of state over the past twenty years, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, on the ushering in of a smart green Third Industrial Revolution economy.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome by Guido Gerrichhauzen
03:29 Introduction by Annette Van Soest
04:13 Main presentation by Jeremy Rifkin
51:05 Q&A with Jeremy Rifkin, Annette Van Soest and audience

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@aritovi 3 ай бұрын

Great lecture

@vitorandremirandarosa8057 9 ай бұрын

I met Jeremy’s work in 2000 when he wrote The Age of Access. Since then, I’ve realized that what he says and writes or produces is just the reality we all are in. So, please pay attention to him! More than that, engage yourself.

@efortune357 7 ай бұрын

Huge fan of Jeremy Rifkin. If you haven’t seen the documentaries “The Choice is ours” and “Paradise or Oblivion” I would highly recommend. Lots of overlap as we try to understand transitioning beyond scarcity, beyond capitalism. They’re some of my favorite documentaries.

@KikiGoshay-cg3er 9 ай бұрын

To help spread this enthusiasm for the third revolution, I created the doc series, Empowered, Energy Heroes. It focuses on the people and technologies behind the Renewable Energy Revolution. Spending years learning from the Thomas Edison’s of our time, I came to believe what Mr. Rifkin is describing is possible.

@jamesevans3221 5 ай бұрын

Identification with value needs to change of what is truly valuable

@jamesevans3221 5 ай бұрын

There is a new need for understanding of what reality is to encompass time. Evolution of nature has is purpose, to which we can only just grasp. Which is expansion off planet if possible. Hence at its detriment to if it fails with one species or another. If fails from what is is the human race, life will go on and evolve. Nature/evolution is farming us. All the human races aptitude to be here and now has to overcome arrogance to greed at first step at least.

@jamesevans3221 5 ай бұрын

The 4th industrial revolution as the past 3rd before was only recognized 10 years plus average. Now we are approaching the 4th which is Hydrogen, Genetics and AI.