{"id":4964,"date":"2011-07-19T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:55","slug":"jeremy-rifkin-on-climate-change-and-alternative-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/jeremy-rifkin-on-climate-change-and-alternative-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Rifkin On Climate Change and Alternative Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Rifkin, the founder and president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foundation On Economic Trends<\/a>, talks about the impact that climate change will have on human civilization and what can still be done if we want our species to continue existing. At roughly 15 minutes into his talk, he talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energ<\/a>y, or, as he calls it, distributed energy. After that, he talks about the impact of livestock on climate change and expresses dismay at how absent is from the discourses of our political leaders. Interestingly, he calls alternative energy as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsunrise energy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and fossil fuel as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsunset energy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which I think are perfect metaphors.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"400\" height=\"257\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m9wM-p8wTq4?version=3&amp;hl=pt_BR\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m9wM-p8wTq4?version=3&amp;hl=pt_BR\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/moving-planet-invites-the-world-to-take-climate-action\/\" title=\"Moving Planet Invites the World to Take Climate Action\">Moving Planet Invites the World to Take Climate Action<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/carbon-levels-in-the-atmosphere-hit-feared-milestone\/\" title=\"Carbon Levels in the Atmosphere Hit Feared Milestone\">Carbon Levels in the Atmosphere Hit Feared Milestone<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/berlin-more-electric-power-to-the-people\/\" title=\"Berlin: More (Electric) Power to the People\">Berlin: More (Electric) Power to the People<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/chasing-ice-opens-in-the-uk\/\" title=\"Chasing Ice Opens in the UK\">Chasing Ice Opens in the UK<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/alternative-energy-is-topic-of-new-tv-series\/\" title=\"Alternative Energy Is Topic of New TV Series\">Alternative Energy Is Topic of New TV Series<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Rifkin, the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends, talks about the impact that climate change will have on human civilization and what can still be done if we want our species to continue existing. At roughly 15 minutes into his talk, he talks about alternative energy, or, as he calls it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[1695,1705,974],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-climate-change","tag-alternative-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-jeremy-rifkin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}