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Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
TEDtalksDirector | November 24, 2009 | 474 likes, 70 dislikes
http://www.ted.com Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels.
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Comment by Michael Grove on December 2, 2010 at 13:41
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I would quote from the words spoken from the mind of Jeremy Rifkin ...
" At the dawn of the modern market economy and nation-state era, the philosophers of the
Enlightenment challenged the Age of Faith that governed over the feudal economy with the
Age of Reason. Theologians and philosophers have continued to battle over faith vs.
reason ever since, their debates often spilling over into the cultural and political arenas, with
profound consequences for society.
Today, however, at the outset of a global economy and the biosphere era, a new generation
of scientists, scholars, and social reformers are beginning to challenge some of the
underlying assumptions of both the Age of Faith and the Age of Reason, taking us into the
Age of Empathy.
The empathic advocates argue that, for the most part, both earlier narratives about human
nature fail to plumb the depths of what makes us human and therefore leave us with
cosmologies that are incomplete stories—that is, they fail to touch the deepest realities of
existence. That’s not to dismiss the critical elements that make the stories of faith and
reason so compelling. It’s only that something essential is missing—and that something is
“embodied experience.”
In the empathic civilization, spirituality invariably replaces religiosity. Spirituality is a deeply personal journey of discovery in which empathic experience—as a general rule—becomes the guide to making connections, and becomes the means to foster transcendence."
ALL hail to Jeremy Rifkin, the Huffington Post and the Royal Society of Arts in London
... and if that's enough to convince us that A NEW GAIA IS on the right track then
Taking Back OUR lives from the Wall Street Mafia - should be the order of the day!!??
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Keiser Report - Episode 121
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