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7th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates:

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Keynote Address

Rome, Italy, 18 November 2006

Mr. Rifkin gave the keynote address at the 7^th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome.  Mr. Rifkin spoke on the need to make the shift from the elite energies of the 20^th century- coal, oil, gas, and uranium- to the distributed energies of the 21^st century- solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, and ocean waves.  Mr. Rifkin reminded the audience that wars have been fought and people killed to secure fossil fuels and uranium during the course of the 19^th and 20^th centuries.  In his address, Mr. Rifkin suggested that a shift to locally produced renewable energies across the world would help diffuse the growing geopolitical tensions around securing an ever more limited supply of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf.  Other honored guests and Nobel Peace Laureates at the event included Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, Lech Walesa, former President of Poland, Mohammad ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Shimon Peres, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Frederik Willem De Klerk, former President of South Africa, and Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima.

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