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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Jeremy Rifkin"”.
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Xoc o aliança de civilitzacions
… per les teories de Samuel P. Huntington i Jeremy Rifkin
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Across the great divide : chimeras and species boundaries
… chimeras be made? Activists Stuart Newman and Jeremy Rifkin have filed a patent application for human-animal chimeras, such as the humanzee, to protest patents on all life forms. Newman and Rifkin believe chimeras are emblematic of abuses of biotechnology and are on a slippery slope to human …
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Implementing the Third Industrial Revolution : a case study of a French example
… Master Plan developed in collaboration with Jeremy Rifkin in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region in France. This region has decided to implement an energy transition plan for some obvious environmental motivations, but mostly for economic and employment-related ones. The thesis explains and reviews …
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An evaluation of biotechnological enhancement in the light of an African perspective of personhood : the metaphysical aspects of botho and human nature
… critique transhumanism, for example, Leon Kass, Jeremy Rifkin, Francis Fukuyama, and Bill McKibben insist that there are certain fundamental elements of personhood or humanity that should not be tampered with. This research evaluates biotechnological enhancement in the light of the Botho …
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Politically Corrected Science: The Early Negotiation of U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Policy
… international competitiveness. At the same time, Jeremy Rifkin, a radical activist representing a green world view, used the controversy to agitate for social and economic reform. Meanwhile, a group of Congressional aides who called themselves the "Cloneheads" used the debate to fight for more …