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Sustainability’s
Third Act
CREDIT: ALBERTO MASNOVO/ISTOCK
Power play. Great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication technologies converge with new energy systems.
When ‘new’ communication BY JEREMY RIFKIN
meets even newer energy UR INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION is at a crossroads.
Oil and the other fossil fuel energies that make up
systems, a green economic the industrial way of life are sunsetting, and the
technologies made from and propelled by these
O energies are antiquated. The entire industrial
revolution is inevitable. infrastructure built off of fossil fuels is aging and in disrepair. The
result is that unemployment is rising to dangerous levels all over
the world. Governments, businesses and consumers are awash in
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