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Jeremy Rikin:
"Energy regimes shape the nature of civilizations... how they are organized, how the fruits of commerce and trade are distributed, how political power is exercised, and how social relations are conducted. The locus of control over energy production and distribution is beginning to tilt from giant fossil fuel based centralized energy companies to millions of small producers, who are generating their own renewable energies in their dwellings and trading surpluses in Info-Energy Commons." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-third-industrial-revo_b_981168.html)