Language. Rifkin, who used to be an advocate for capital opportunism, has moved out of that role and into a new humanism looking for a deep blend of society and nature along with the other soceties of animals, insects, and the even smaller critters. I find this sentence stronger than anything I could have written.
“…..humanity’s long held assumptions…..were tragically misconceived, to the detriment of our species’ survivability”
Excerpt FromThe Age of Resilience
Try imagining how you could have written a such a sentence.