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The Empathic Civilisation
Location: United Kingdom, London
Address: RSA, WC2N 6EZ
Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 18:00
Link: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/the-empathic-civilisation
Escape Route: Career Change | Green & Renewable
Description:
Bestselling author, political adviser and ‘social and ethical prophet’ Jeremy Rifkin visits the RSA to investigate the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that will demand an unprecedented level of mutual understanding among diverse peoples and nations. Do we have the capacity and collective will to come together in a way that will enable us to cope with the great challenges of our time?
Rifkin argues that at the very core of the human story is the paradoxical relationship between empathy and entropy. At various times in history new energy regimes have converged with new communication revolutions, creating ever more complex societies that heightened empathic sensitivity and expanded human consciousness. But these increasingly complicated milieus require extensive energy use and speed us toward resource depletion.
