Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Rifkin, Jeremy. Interview. Harvest of Fear, PBS Frontline, 2001.
This was written while she was in a U. S. prison. She wrote the manuscript and smuggled it out. It was published under the Pseudonym of “Junius.” As a result the prison authorities had no idea that she was running an anti-war and anti-government publishing operation from prison. What was she in prison for? Writing and speaking against the government and the war.
When a major country chooses a policy or practice, their decision is not for them only Sartre observed. Others will claim the same moral, ethical and political right. And the decision may be therefore made for many nations when the original decision was thought to apply to ourselves only and in the immediate context only.
Jeremy Rifkin is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 21 books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His most recent books include, The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic Civilization (2010), and The European Dream (2004).
