Audiobooks by Jeremy Rifkin

Rescuing the Future: Reimagining Artificial Intelligence

"AI and the Great Ontological Transformation How did we get to this horrific moment when life itself may be snuffed out on this once animated planet? For 98 per cent of the time our species has inhabited the Earth, we adapted to the temporal processes, patterns, and flows of an environment alive with agency. Two thousand years ago our ancestors changed course and began to think of our world as made up of inert substances, things, and resources to be extracted, propertized, commodified, marketed, and consumed. We quickened the pace over the past two centuries of the Industrial Age, systematically stripping the planet of agency, and now find ourselves and our fellow creatures on the brink of extinction. Philosophers describe this historical dialectic as process ontology vs. substance ontology. The existential question we now face is this: can we restore vibrant life on our planet or will we continue to exploit and degrade our Earthly largesse? The answer will depend, in great part, on how we choose to use Artificial Intelligence. The powers that be in the AI world imagine a geopolitical approach to managing the planet, where a handful of tech giants govern the future and extract the last remains of what was a thriving environment, and where even humanity is bypassed by machine intelligence, giving rise to the “singularity” alongside an AI-framed substance ontology paradigm. By contrast, a powerful alternative AI is quietly scaling with the build-out of a highly distributed AI infrastructure attached to local ecosystems and stewarded by bioregional commons governance, enjoining the collaborative intelligence of both our species and our fellow creatures. The People’s AI is pure process ontology and fosters a deep biophilic realignment with the natural world. The choice we make between holding on to an AI substance ontology or grabbing hold of a nascent AI process ontology will determine whether our planet, once brimming with life, will flourish again or perish."

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Pianeta acqua: Ripensare la nostra casa nell'universo

"Che cosa accadrebbe se un giorno ci svegliassimo e il mondo in cui viviamo ci apparisse stranamente alieno, come se fossimo stati teletrasportati in qualche pianeta remoto? Ebbene, oggi questa spaventosa ipotesi è quantomai reale. Per effetto del riscaldamento globale assistiamo sempre più spesso a eventi meteorologici estremi - inondazioni primaverili, prolungate siccità estive, ondate di calore e incendi incontrollati, violenti uragani -, ciascuno dei quali devasta gli ecosistemi e distrugge l'infrastruttura sociale. Per troppo tempo abbiamo frainteso la natura stessa della nostra esistenza e ciò a cui dobbiamo la nostra sopravvivenza. Tutto quello che pensavamo di sapere sulla nostra casa nell'universo è sbagliato. Ci siamo convinti di vivere su una terraferma, mentre la verità è che abitiamo un pianeta d'acqua, e ora l'idrosfera, che per seimila anni abbiamo canalizzato, privatizzato, sfruttato e avvelenato, si sta ribellando e minaccia di provocare la sesta estinzione di massa sulla Terra. Con questo illuminante contributo, Jeremy Rifkin ci sollecita a ripensare il nostro posto nell'universo a partire dalla consapevolezza che viviamo su un pianeta d'acqua. In questa nuova ottica, dobbiamo riconsiderare e rimodulare ogni aspetto della nostra vita, dalla relazione con la natura ai modelli di governance sociale e ambientale, dalla concezione dell'attività economica all'educazione dei nostri figli, fino al modo in cui ci orientiamo nel tempo e nello spazio. «Ribattezzare la nostra casa 'Pianeta Acqua' non è soltanto un esercizio retorico, ma un cambiamento del senso di orientamento planetario della nostra specie», un primo ma decisivo passo per affrontare davvero la crisi globale che si profila all'orizzonte. Sostenute da una solida ricerca, queste pagine sovvertono tutte le nostre convinzioni sulla nostra casa nell'universo, la Terra, e hanno una forte risonanza con l'attualità, in particolare per l'Italia, tra i territori più a rischio per il riscaldamento globale. contributori LE Edoardo Lomazzi"

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Edoardo Lomazzi (Narrator)

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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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[German] - 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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The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

"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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Audiobooks by Jeremy Rifkin

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