Jeremy Rifkin is one of a long line of American futurists who, like Alvin Toffler, have been able to put forward convincing visions of the future based on analyses that are both cross-disciplinary and well-documented.
After convincing the world’s elites of the imminence of a “third industrial revolution”,[1] this time he turns his sights on another challenge: the ecological and geopolitical issues linked to water management. To put these issues in the highest possible perspective, he points out that our Earth — which he renames “Planet Aqua” — is one of the few planets in the Universe whose surface is mainly occupied by water, and that access to this vital resource is currently threatened by a number of man-made phenomena (droughts, floods, pollution, depletion of water tables etc.).
To explore our future, the author relies more than in his previous essays on a detailed analysis
