A seismic shift is under way. According to author and futurist, Jeremy Rifkin (The Third Industrial Revolution, The Zero Marginal Cost Society), we are in the final phases of the fossil fuel era. In his new book, The Green New Deal, Rifkin argues that we are entering a zero carbon economy. Much as coal and steam powered the First Industrial Revolution, and oil and telephony powered the Second Industrial Revolution, so clean energy and digital technologies are now converging toward what he describes as the Third Industrial Revolution.
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