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Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

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Jeremy Rifkin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
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We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.
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They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
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Deep play precedes deep work.
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