Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books, translated into thirty-five languages. He is a principal architect of the European Union's and China's economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change; and he served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan. He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in The Huffington Post's global survey of "The World's Most Influential Voices."

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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