Planet Aqua

Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

Jeremy Rifkin 저자(글)

Polity Press · 2024년 09월 03일

책 소개

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.

Also available as an audiobook.

작가정보

저자(글) Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books, translated into thirty-five languages. He is a principal architect of the European Union's and China's economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change; and he served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan. He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in The Huffington Post's global survey of "The World's Most Influential Voices."

목차

• Detailed Contents vii
  
  Acknowledgments x
  
  Introduction
  
  Part I The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization
  
  1 First There Was the Waters
  2 The Earth Be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization
  3 Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Firma and Planet Aqua
  4 The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism
  
  Part II The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Eco-Region Became Day Zero on a Warming Earth and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life
  
  5 The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean
  6 Location, Location, Location: The Eurasian Pangaea
  
  Part III We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything
  
  7 Freeing the Waters
  8 The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society
  9 Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We've Come from and Where We're Heading
  10 Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors
  11 The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance
  
  Part IV Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth
  
  12 Two Ways to Listen to the Waters
  13 Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse
  
  Notes
  
  Index

출판사 서평

“Forget the idea that we live on a land planet. After reading Rifkin’s eye-opening account of our Planet Aqua, a water planet, you will never look at the Earth in the same way again. It’s a much-needed new dimension of the climate conversation, and a smart read for business leaders navigating our changing world.”
Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever and past President of the International Chamber of Commerce

“Planet Aqua will shock most people. Rifkin points out that instead of living on a land planet, we actually live on a water planet – fresh, salt, and frozen – and this changes all of our long-held beliefs. Now, climate change is rapidly disrupting the hydrosphere, taking us into a foreboding future of floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, and hurricanes, pushing many species to extinction, including our own. Rifkin’s Planet Aqua gives us an entirely new story about our home in the universe that hopefully will change the way we think, act, and thrive alongside our fellow creatures on a water planet.”
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace

“With Planet Aqua, Jeremy Rifkin presents a thought-provoking and absorbing vision of humanity’s future that centers on water as the ‘the animating source of life.’ It’s a compelling and persuasive read that redefines our relationship with the Earth’s most complex and vital sphere.”
Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group

“Rifkin’s prescient Planet Aqua is a beck and call to humanity, like God’s instruction to Noah in the face of the catastrophic deluge in the book of Genesis. He reminds us that the future of the planetary hydrosphere will determine our own fate and the fate of our fellow creatures – a prophetic message that we need to absorb, reflect, and act on.”
Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

“An energetic, urgent call for imaginative, radical responses to environmental crises.”
Kirkus Reviews

기본정보

ISBN	9781509563739 ( 1509563733 )
발행(출시)일자	2024년 09월 03일
쪽수	360쪽
크기	160 * 235 * 36 mm / 595 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어