Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society.

For too long we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We have come to believe that we live on a land planet when the reality is that we live on a water planet, and now the Earth's hydrosphere is rewilding in the throes of a changing climate, taking our species and our fellow creatures into a mass extinction event as it searches for a new equilibrium.

Jeremy Rifkin calls on us to rethink our place in the universe and realize that we live on Planet Aqua. He takes us on a new journey into the future where we will need to reassess every aspect of the way we live - how we engage nature, govern society, conceptualize economic life, educate our children, and even orient ourselves in time and space. The next stage in the human journey is to rebrand our home Planet Aqua and learn how to readapt to the waters of life.

Underpinned by robust research, this major new work by one of the world's leading public intellectuals aims to redefine the very core of our existence on Planet Aqua.

如果有一天我們突然醒來，發現我們生活的世界變得陌生而詭異，彷彿我們被傳送到了另一個遙遠的世界，那會發生什麼事情呢？這個可怕的前景現在已經出現了。在全球變暖的氣候下，我們的行星水圈正在反叛，引發聖經般的春季洪水、毀滅性的夏季乾旱、熱浪和野火，以及強大的秋季颶風和颱風，對生態系統和社會造成嚴重破壞。

長久以來，我們錯誤地判斷了我們存在的本質以及我們生命線的來源。我們開始相信我們生活在一個陸地行星上，但事實上我們生活在一個水行星上，現在地球的水圈正在在氣候變化中重新野化，尋求新的平衡，這將導致物種和其他生物進入大規模滅絕事件。

傑里米·里夫金呼籲我們重新思考我們在宇宙中的位置，並意識到我們生活在水行星上。他帶領我們進入一個新的未來之旅，在這個旅程中，我們需要重新評估我們生活的方方面面 - 我們如何與自然互動，如何治理社會，如何概念化經濟生活，如何教育我們的孩子，甚至如何定位自己在時間和空間中的位置。人類旅程的下一個階段是重新定位我們的家園水行星，並學習如何適應生命之水。

這部由世界頂尖公共知識分子之一撰寫的重要新作品，以堅實的研究為基礎，旨在重新定義我們在水行星上的存在的核心。

Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of numerous works which have been translated into over 35 languages. They include The Third Industrial Revolution, The Age of Resilience, The Green New Deal and The Empathic Civilization.

「Jeremy Rifkin」是暢銷作家，他的許多作品已經被翻譯成超過35種語言。這些作品包括《第三次工業革命》、《彈性時代》、《綠色新政》和《共感文明》。