Planet Aqua

Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of numerous works which have been translated into over 35 languages. They include The Third Industrial Revolution, The Age of Resilience, The Green New Deal and The Empathic Civilization.

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