The Age of Resilience | Jeremy Rifkin

Why it is included: For 200 years, humanity has been driven by the "Age of Progress"—an ideology based on efficiency, speed, and the domination of nature. Rifkin argues that this age is dead.

The climate crisis has shattered the illusion that we can control the planet.

We are now entering the "Age of Resilience," where the goal is no longer to be efficient (lean and fragile), but to be adaptable (redundant and robust).

We include this because it provides the new economic operating system.

Rifkin details how we must shift from "Globalization" to "Glocalization," from "Financial Capital" to "Ecological Capital," and from "representative democracy" to "distributed peer governance."

It is the comprehensive blueprint for how a civilization survives on a volatile planet, moving the conversation from "How do we grow?" to "How do we last?"