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**"One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (__Utne Reader__) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.** Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases. No matter how much we put our minds to the task of meeting the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world, the human race seems to continually come up short, unable to muster the collective mental resources to truly "think globally and act locally." In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that this disconnect between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness. The very way our brains are structured disposes us to a way of feeling, thinking, and acting in the world that is no longer entirely relevant to the new environments we have created for ourselves. The human-made environment is rapidly morphing into a global space, yet our existing modes of consciousness are structured for earlier eras of histor

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Author

Jeremy Rifkin

Publisher

TarcherPerigee

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585427659

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (99 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14