Jeremy Rifkin on Empathy and the Biosphere
Jeremy Rifkin on Empathy and the Biosphere
"Children are becoming aware," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "that everything they do — the very way they live — affects the lives of every other human being, our fellow creatures, and the biosphere we cohabit." In this excerpt from his important recent book, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2009), Rifkin describes the emergence of curricula that combine biosphere awareness with empathy to make the global emotional connections that sustainable living requires.
