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• Nidhi - 17 Mar 2012 5:39am

  Thanks for discussing your ideas with this blog. Also, a diueslon regarding the banking companies intentions when talking about foreclosures is that the financial institution will not getreceive my installments. There is a fair bit of time in which the bank will require payments every now and then. If you are far too deep inside the hole, they will commonly call that you pay the actual payment in full. However, i am not saying that they will not take any sort of repayments at all. When you and the financial institution can seem to work one thing out, a foreclosure method may stop. However, if you ever continue to pass up payments beneath new plan, the foreclosure process can just pick up exactly where it was left off.

• Shayne - 04 Feb 2012 1:13am

  @David Stahl Watch this http://www.dylanratigan.com/2012/01/31/auction-2012-the-hidden-costs-of-energy/

• Giuseppe Cavallo - 21 Jan 2012 2:01pm

  I really love the way Jeremy Rifkin puts us and our governments in front of our challenges and our responsibilities. His words are a call to action for all who believe that we can still collaborate to building a better and sustainable world. I love his trusting the power of the new generations.

• Siddha Rajan - 19 Jan 2012 11:37pm

  This is interesting. Somebody in Europe is speaking in a language much familiar to us in Asia (more particularly India), although terms like "lateral", "eco consciousness" may sound new, they are actually a few millenia old principles here. Indeed it will not be centralized, it will be continents, and then it will be "community", then family, and it should stop there. It should never go to individual, then greed takes over the individual, and then we will have all the mideaval conquests, imperialism etc., all over again. In fact, before the Arab invasions on India, we never had armies butchering civilians or burning cities!! Kings only maintained Dharma, even if they went to war, it was two armies that fought it out - no harm to cililians, no harm even to animal and plant kingdom. Wars were fought in open plains, only during day time! In the context of values, hence, for the next revolution to happen, YAMA and NIYAMA are a must.

• Thomas Costick - 12 Jan 2012 7:36pm

  While many would argue that the oil price didn't cause the 2008 financial crisis, it is reasonable to see it as a trigger or significant contributor. I watched the video and then also listened to the full audio recording (1hr14) which included a lot of very interesting detail, including a good range of questions from the audience. I hope, as suggested in the Q&A, Jeremy Rifkin can have words with UK politicians and make them appreciate the importance of the message for the good of us all.

• David Stahl - 12 Jan 2012 6:02pm

  He lost his credibility when he said that the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by the price of oil.