Jeremy Rifkin asks doomsday questions that confront what he proposes is a rise in global consciousness fighting an entropic or decaying thermodynamic ecology.
Can humanity make a global calling to maximize the efforts of balancing out the ends of this type of argument.
Rifkin is an author and a American social thinker.
He presents his points on surviving catastrophy in a book called :
The Empathic Civilization : The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis.The basic tenet of his proposal is set out in the first chapter where he points to 1914 and a Christmas Eve attempt by British and German military forces to show empathy towards each other in spite of the disaster that was looming in the spirit of this time.
Of course the war raged on from 1914 to 1918 and many of these soldiers never lived to tell the tale.
The book and Rifkin's surviving catastrophy idea is further looked at in this Ottawa Citizen article by Janice Kennedy.
The Doomsday Question
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