Publisher Description
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.
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About Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin,
one of the most popular social thinkers of our time, is the bestselling author
of numerous books, including The Third Industrial Revolution, The
Empathic Civilization, The European Dream, The Age of Access,
The Hydrogen Economy, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work.
His books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Rifkin is
an advisor to the European Union and to heads of state around the world. He is a
senior lecturer at the Wharton School’s executive education program at the
University of Pennsylvania and the president of the Foundation on Economic
Trends.
About Adam Barr
Pete Cross is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He holds a BA in theater from the University of Toledo and an MFA in acting from the California Institute of the Arts. His experience on stage includes Carnegie Hall, and he has also acted in film. He has served on the faculty at Cal Arts and with Aquila Morong Studio in Hollywood. He has coached for film and theatrical productions and continues to work with private clients all over the world.