Jeremy Rifkin proposes setting up a decentralized energy system, similar to the internet, to reduce vulnerability to blackouts.
Jeremy Rifkin argues that there will be an energy "regime change" as fossil fuels become too expensive and politically problematic and hydrogen fuel and fuel cells become more viable.
Jeremy Rifkin warns that the genetic engineering technology being used commercially in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry and medicine today is potentially convertible to the development of a wide range of pathogens that can attack plant, animal and human populations.
Jeremy Rifkin argues that recent cloning innovations and patents have crossed an ethical line by permitting a company to own a human being in "the form of intellectual property, in the gestational stages between conception and birth."