“We are actually soft-wired not for agression, violence, self-interest, and utilitarianism, but rather we are soft-wired for sociability, attachment, affection, and companionship.”

In this RSA video Jeremy Rifkin depicts the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Rifkin concludes that human empathy has progressively included more members of humanity through historical epochs, and in order to save our planet we must extend our identities to the entire human race and biosphere.

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