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Grow the Future of Public Media

Conventional wisdom has long held that humans are by nature materialistic and self-interested. But scholar and writer Jeremy Rifkin argues in his new book that  science is forcing us to rethink this notion, and that the growth of human empathy could help solve the problems that confront the world.

Can empathy save the world?

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