Jeremy Rifkin Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Opportunity, Age, Legs

• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Change, Science, Two

  Jeremy Rifkin (2003). “The Hydrogen Economy”, p.6, Penguin

• We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Mother, Age, Bills

• We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Age, Firsts, Steps

• The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Life, Past, Men

  Jeremy Rifkin (1989). “Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History”, Touchstone

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