MANIFESTO OF THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

EUROPEAN SOCIETY

The second industrial revolution energy model based on fossil and concentrated sources is
irreversibly in crisis. It has allowed an unprecedented growth of the human race but it also involved
disadvantages that are by now largely overwhelming its advantages and threatening the very human
race survival on the planet.

The disadvantages are summed up in the present three global crisis feeding off each other that we
are experiencing in this historic moment, the energy, the climate and the financial crisis. We are not
experiencing a temporary financial setback but a structural crisis of the fossil fuel based economy,
with effects on our energy (unsteady prices and peak oil) and our climate, which are putting in
jeopardy the civilization as we came to know it. This diabolical interaction of crisis is not going to
be effected by some cosmetic measure such as refinancing credit institutions, because these
provisions only hit the problem superficial effects and not their deep cause.

The only effective answer in this sense will be a fast transition to a Third Industrial Revolution,
introducing a new distributed, interactive and democratic energy model, capable of fully replacing
the centralized, top-down, depleting, second industrial revolution energy model. This new energy
model’s breakthrough technologies can and will support all human economic activities, helping to
re-distribute wealth, jobs and business opportunities, because they are based on solar sources, which
are in everybody’s availability, rather than concentrated sources which are only in the availability of
a few. This will introduce a new democratic energy process that will call to their responsibilities all
economic, political and civil society actors. In this scenario of “distributed capitalism”, energy is
produced directly by the consumers, preserving the climate and the environment and introducing a
reasonable use of natural resources, air, water and land, giving value to quality agriculture and
supplying to farmers a more direct access to their products markets.

The Third Industrial Revolution will allow the re-balancing of power between the wealthy and the
poor in the world, shifting the energy producing activities balance to the developing countries, in a
world wide effort towards a new “biosphere politics” scenario in which all human beings will act as
one, getting over their geo-political divisions and the energy originated conflicts that have marked
the second industrial revolution period. This period has created tremendous progress and benefits
only for one quarter of the human kind to detriment of the other three quarters, those who, for
poetic injustice, are now exposed to the climate change highest risks.
The experts say that the window we have to prepare for a new energy infrastructure is very small:
seven, ten years maximum, before the climate change damage became irreversible. Some experts
say, more pessimistically, that the climate crisis has already touched the point of no return, that it is
already too late. We would like to think that it isn’t so, that the man can still use his ingenuity, his
will and his empathy to save the biosphere that hosted him since he appeared on the planet. For this
reason we will promote with all our means and in all the possible economic, political and social
occasions, the idea of the fastest possible transition towards Third Industrial Revolution energy
models.

It is public powers prerogative to set up a new Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure that allow
to collect, store and re-distribute energy from renewable sources, simultaneously developing all the
related industries, from renewable energies, to hydrogen, smart grids and constructions as power
plants, which are the four pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution that will allow to the world
economy to enter in a new virtuous energy cycle era, creating a new economic dynamic that will
create millions of jobs.

For acceptance of the guiding lines reported in this Manifesto

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