Can We Reach Biosphere Consciousness And Global

We Now Have An Opportunity, Though, To Do Something We Didn't Do In The Industrial Age, And That Is To Get A Leg Up On This, To Bring The Public In Quickly, To Have An Informed Debate.

The Hydrogen Economy Will Make Possible A Vast Redistribution Of Power, With Far-reaching Consequences For Society. Today's Centralized, Top-down Flow Of Energy, Controlled By Global Oil Companies And Utilities, Could Become Obsolete.

We Are Entering A New Phase In Human History - One In Which Fewer And Fewer Workers Will Be Needed To Produce The Goods And Services For The Global Population.

The Position I Took At The Time Was That We Hadn't Really Examined Any Of The Potential Environmental Consequences Of Introducing Genetically Modified Organisms.

James Watt Patented His Steam Engine On The Eve Of The American Revolution, Consummating A Relationship Between Coal And The New Promethean Spirit Of The Age, And Humanity Made Its First Tentative Steps Into An Industrial Way Of Life That Would, Over The Next Two Centuries, Forever Change The World.