Audiobooks by Jeremy Rifkin

Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

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. 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. 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 (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Das Zeitalter der Resilienz: Leben neu denken auf einer wilden Erde

Historischer Blick und Zukunftsbild – Bestsellerautor Jeremy Rifkin kann beides. Er zeigt, wie industrielles Effizienzdenken alle Bereiche des Lebens durchdrungen und uns an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt hat. Ist die Menschheit noch zu retten? Ja, aber dafür bedarf es eines radikalen Wandels unseres Selbstbilds und unseres Denkens. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über die Entstehung des Menschen oder den Einfluss biologischer Uhren und elektromagnetischer Felder ermöglichen genau dies: eine neue Geschichte der Evolution, die dem Homo Oeconomicus einen Homo Oecologicus entgegensetzt. Einen Menschen, für den es mehr denn je überlebenswichtig ist, sich an seine Umwelt anzupassen. Rifkin liefert die übergreifende Erzählung für den politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen globalen Weg vom Zeitalter des Fortschritts in das Zeitalter der Resilienz. »Jeremy Rifkin ist der ökonomische und ökologische Botschafter der weltweiten Energiewende ... er präsentiert einen visionären Ansatz, wie ihn in den letzten fünfzig Jahren niemand vorzubringen wagte.« Sigmar Gabriel »Dieses Buch stellt einen Plan vor, der überlebenswichtig ist für die Millionen ohne Arbeit und für einen Planeten, der geheilt werden muss.« Dr. Vandana Shiva »Eine Musslektüre für Investoren, Unternehmen und Entscheider gleichermaßen.« Richard Branson »Für Jeremy Rifkin ist die Zukunft immer schon da. Der amerikanische Bestseller-Autor und Trendforscher sieht die Umrisse dessen, was auf uns zu kommt, meist schon dann, wenn andere am Horizont nur ein ungewisses Flirren wahrnehmen.« Focus

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Mathias Grimm (Narrator)

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Das Zeitalter der Resilienz: Leben neu denken auf einer wilden Erde

Historischer Blick und Zukunftsbild – Bestsellerautor Jeremy Rifkin kann beides. Er zeigt, wie industrielles Effizienzdenken alle Bereiche des Lebens durchdrungen und uns an den Rand des Abgrunds gefUhrt hat. Ist die Menschheit noch zu retten? Ja, aber dafUr bedarf es eines radikalen Wandels unseres Selbstbilds und unseres Denkens. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse Uber die Entstehung des Menschen oder den Einfluss biologischer Uhren und elektromagnetischer Felder ermOglichen genau dies: eine neue Geschichte der Evolution, die dem Homo oeconomicus einen Homo oecologicus entgegensetzt. Einen Menschen, fUr den es mehr denn je Uberlebenswichtig ist, sich an seine Umwelt anzupassen. Rifkin liefert die Ubergreifende ErzAhlung fUr den politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen globalen Weg vom Zeitalter des Fortschritts in das Zeitalter der Resilienz. Jeremy Rifkin ist der Okonomische und Okologische Botschafter der weltweiten Energiewende ... er prAsentiert einen visionAren Ansatz, wie ihn in den letzten fUnfzig Jahren niemand vorzubringen wagte.« Sigmar Gabriel Dieses Buch stellt einen Plan vor, der Uberlebenswichtig ist fUr die Millionen ohne Arbeit und fUr einen Planeten, der geheilt werden muss.« Dr. Vandana Shiva Eine MusslektUre fUr Investoren, Unternehmen und Entscheider gleichermaßen.« Richard Branson FUr Jeremy Rifkin ist die Zukunft immer schon da. Der amerikanische Bestseller-Autor und Trendforscher sieht die Umrisse dessen, was auf uns zu kommt, meist schon dann, wenn andere am Horizont nur ein ungewisses Flirren wahrnehmen.« Focus

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Mathias Grimm (Narrator)

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The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Pl

An urgent, workable plan to confront climate change and transform America's economy for a post-fossil fuel world from the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Industrial Revolution. A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. The Green New Deal has caught fire in activist circles and become a central focus in the national conversation, setting the agenda for a new political movement that will likely transform the entire US and world economy. Although the details remain to be hashed out, it has inspired the millennial generation, now the largest voting bloc in the country, to lead America on the issue of climate change. While the Green New Deal has become an overnight sensation, it takes on added weight in lieu of a parallel movement within the global business community that is going to shake the very foundation of society over the next several years. Behind the scenes, the key sectors that make up the infrastructure of the global economy are quickly decoupling from fossil fuels and recoupling with solar and wind energies that are now near parity in cost and soon to be far cheaper. New studies are sounding the alarm about the prospect of 100 trillion dollars in stranded assets as the economy abandons the old energies of the twentieth century for the new cheaper green energies of the twenty-first century, creating a carbon bubble that is likely to burst by 2028-leading to the collapse of the fossil fuel civilization. This great disruption is occurring because the marketplace is speaking. Every government will have to follow the market or face the consequences. Governments that lead in the scale-up of a new zero carbon green infrastructure and create the new business opportunities and employment that accompany it will stay ahead of the curve. Governments that fail to lead will be doomed. In The Green New Deal, New York Times bestselling author and renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin delivers the political narrative, technical framework, and economic plan for the debate now taking center stage across America. The concurrence of a stranded fossil fuel assets bubble and a green political vision opens up the possibility of a massive global paradigm shift into a post-carbon ecological era, hopefully in time to prevent a temperature rise that will tip us over the edge into runaway climate change. With twenty-five years of experience at the forefront of enacting green transitions for both the European Union and the People's Republic of China, Rifkin offers his indispensable wisdom in a blueprint for how to transform the global economy and save life on Earth.

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), David Cochran Heath (Narrator)

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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse o

In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the capitalist era is passing—not quickly, but inevitably. The emerging Internet of Things is giving rise to a new economic system that will transform our way of life. In this provocative book, Rifkin argues that the coming together of the Communication Internet with the fledgling Energy Internet and Logistics Internet in a seamless twenty-first-century intelligent infrastructure—the Internet of Things—is boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free. The result is that corporate profits are beginning to dry up, property rights are weakening, and the conventional mind-set of scarcity is slowly giving way to the possibility of abundance. The zero marginal cost phenomenon is spawning a hybrid economy—part capitalist market and part “collaborative commons”—with far-reaching implications for society. Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to what he calls the global Collaborative Commons. “Prosumers” are making and sharing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3-D printed products at near-zero marginal cost. They are also sharing cars, homes, clothes, and other items via social media sites, redistribution clubs, and cooperatives at low or near-zero marginal cost. Students are even enrolling in free MOOCs, massive open online courses that operate at near-zero marginal cost. In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, cooperation supersedes competition, and “exchange value” in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by “sharable value” on the Collaborative Commons. “The Zero Marginal Cost Society confirms Jeremy Rifkin as peerless visionary of technological trends. The future arrives only to fill in the sketches that Rifkin so ably draws. I highly recommend as a cure for those who are perplexed about the future of technology.”—Calestous Juma, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), David Cochran Heath (Narrator)

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the Worl

The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future. Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories and sharing it with each other in an "energy Internet," just like how we create and share information online. Rifkin describes how the five pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses and millions of jobs and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships—from hierarchical power to lateral power—that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life. Rifkin's vision is already gaining traction in the international community. The European Parliament has issued a formal declaration calling for its implementation, and other nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas are quickly preparing their own initiatives for transitioning into this new economic paradigm. The Third Industrial Revolution is an insider's account of the next great economic era, including a look into the personalities and players—heads of state, global CEOs, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs—who are pioneering its implementation around the world.

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Kevin Foley (Narrator)

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