What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society. For too long we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We…mehr
What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society. For too long we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We have come to believe that we live on a land planet when the reality is that we live on a water planet, and now the Earth's hydrosphere is rewilding in the throes of a changing climate, taking our species and our fellow creatures into a mass extinction event as it searches for a new equilibrium. Jeremy Rifkin calls on us to rethink our place in the universe and realize that we live on Planet Aqua. He takes us on a new journey into the future where we will need to reassess every aspect of the way we live - how we engage nature, govern society, conceptualize economic life, educate our children, and even orient ourselves in time and space. The next stage in the human journey is to rebrand our home Planet Aqua and learn how to readapt to the waters of life. Underpinned by robust research, this major new work by one of the world's leading public intellectuals aims to redefine the very core of our existence on Planet Aqua.
Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of numerous works which have been translated into over 35 languages. They include The Third Industrial Revolution, The Age of Resilience, The Green New Deal and The Empathic Civilization.
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Introduction Part I: The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization Chapter 1: First There Was the Waters Déjà Vu and the Second Deluge Our Aquatic Self: How Humans Emerged from the Deep Chapter 2: The Earth be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization The Invention of Economics Drowning in Progress Chapter 3: Hydrology and the Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Mater and Planet Aqua Picking Sides: The War of Goddesses and Gods Women: The Carriers of Water Chapter 4: The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Leaving Capitalism Behind Part II: The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Ecosystem Became Day Zero on a Warming Climate and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life Chapter 5: The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean Day Zero: When Nations Run Dry Renewables to the Rescue and a Second Life for the Mediterranean Ecosystem Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not Any Drop to Drink...Until Now Chapter 6: Location, Location, Location: The Mediterranean and the Eurasian Pangaea The Bridge to Europe and Asia Partin III: We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything Chapter 7: The Resilient Infrastructure Revolution: A New Economic Paradigm The Making of a Social Organism Power to the People From Geopolitics to Biosphere Politics Chapter 8: Freeing the Waters Opening the Floodgates Harvesting the Hydrosphere Chapter 9: The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society The Renaissance of the Ephemeral Arts and the Rest of Time and Space How Plato Took Our Species Down the Wrong Path Chapter 10: Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We've Come From and Where We're Heading Temporary Cities Ephemeral Waters and Ephemeral Cities Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors Chapter 11: The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance Mass Migration and the Issuing of Climate Passports Rethinking Security: Military Defense Gives Way to Climate Resilience Part IV: Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth Chapter 12: Two Ways to Listen to the Waters Vanquishing the Waters or Riding the Waves Reorienting Ourselves in Time and Space in a Liquid Milieu Chapter 13: Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse An Ecological Vision or Dystopian Nightmare: Two Paths to the Future Planet Aqua: Rebranding Our Home Notes Index
Introduction Part I: The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization Chapter 1: First There Was the Waters Déjà Vu and the Second Deluge Our Aquatic Self: How Humans Emerged from the Deep Chapter 2: The Earth be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization The Invention of Economics Drowning in Progress Chapter 3: Hydrology and the Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Mater and Planet Aqua Picking Sides: The War of Goddesses and Gods Women: The Carriers of Water Chapter 4: The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Leaving Capitalism Behind Part II: The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Ecosystem Became Day Zero on a Warming Climate and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life Chapter 5: The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean Day Zero: When Nations Run Dry Renewables to the Rescue and a Second Life for the Mediterranean Ecosystem Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not Any Drop to Drink...Until Now Chapter 6: Location, Location, Location: The Mediterranean and the Eurasian Pangaea The Bridge to Europe and Asia Partin III: We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything Chapter 7: The Resilient Infrastructure Revolution: A New Economic Paradigm The Making of a Social Organism Power to the People From Geopolitics to Biosphere Politics Chapter 8: Freeing the Waters Opening the Floodgates Harvesting the Hydrosphere Chapter 9: The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society The Renaissance of the Ephemeral Arts and the Rest of Time and Space How Plato Took Our Species Down the Wrong Path Chapter 10: Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We've Come From and Where We're Heading Temporary Cities Ephemeral Waters and Ephemeral Cities Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors Chapter 11: The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance Mass Migration and the Issuing of Climate Passports Rethinking Security: Military Defense Gives Way to Climate Resilience Part IV: Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth Chapter 12: Two Ways to Listen to the Waters Vanquishing the Waters or Riding the Waves Reorienting Ourselves in Time and Space in a Liquid Milieu Chapter 13: Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse An Ecological Vision or Dystopian Nightmare: Two Paths to the Future Planet Aqua: Rebranding Our Home Notes Index
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