The Alamo Group of the Sierra Club general meeting is held the third Tuesday of most months.

PROGRAM TOPIC: The April meeting will feature a summary and discussion of Jeremy Rifkin's visionary 2022 book, "The Age of Resilience-- Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth", described as “A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on a rewilding Earth.”1

Jeremy Rifkin is an American economic social theorist and activist, and “author of 23 books about the influence of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society and the environment.” He is “a principal architect of the European Union’s long term Third Industrial Revolution ... to create a smart post-carbon economy, ecological society, and the world’s largest single integrated economic marketplace.”2

Rewilding is defined as “a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems ... [with a] focus on replacing human interventions with natural processes. The aim is to create resilient, self-regulating and self-sustaining ecosystems. ... [T]he United Nations has listed rewilding as one of several methods needed to achieve massive scale restoration of natural ecosystems, which they say must be accomplished by 2030 as part of the 30x30 campaign.“3

Refs:
1. https://www.foet.org/project/the-age-of-resilience/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Darby Riley is a San Antonio attorney and long-time environmental activist. He currently serves on the executive committee of the Alamo Group of the Sierra Club.