China Embraces
Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution
November 3, 2012
The London Times reports that members of the twenty four person Politburo and senior party officials are reading and actively discussing Jeremy Rifkin's New York Times bestselling book, The Third Industrial Revolution, on the eve of the National Party Congress on November 8th that will usher in the new leadership of China.
According to The Times of London, the Chinese leadership is taking up Rifkin's vision of linking internet technology with renewable energies, to prepare China for a dramatic shift into a sustainable post-carbon Third Industrial Revolution economy in the 21st century. The Third Industrial Revolution has been the number one bestselling economics book in China for more than four months.
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The European Commission Calls for
a Third Industrial Revolution to Regrow the European Economy
On October 10th the European Commission published its Industrial Policy Communication Update emphasizing six priority areas that "will provide the industrial infrastructure needed for what has been identified as a Third Industrial Revolution." Mr. Rifkin, who assisted in the preparation of the Industrial Policy Update, commented that "the establishment of this infrastructure has the potential to create thousands of new businesses and millions of new jobs and lay the basis for a sustainable EU economy in the 21st century."
Please see this link to the European Commission website:
At a time when the United States is floundering without a comprehensive long-term plan to regrow the economy and address the urgent issue of climate change, the European Union and now China are beginning to lay the groundwork for a transition into a Third Industrial Revolution and a new economic paradigm.
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