Hi, it's Diane, on my mind, understanding our water planet.

Thousands of years ago, humans learned to control the power of water and civilization was born.

Now, in a new book, Jeremy Rivkin argues climate change has shifted that equation, and water is once again controlling us with floods,

hurricanes, and typhoons.

The waters are rebelling.

They're literally taking down the entire infrastructure of our civilization in real time.

Jeremy Ribkin is the author of 23 books.

He's advised governments around the globe on how to adapt economies and infrastructure to a changing world.

He joins me to talk about his new book, Planet Aqua, a plea to radically rethink our relationship

to water and its impact on our future.

Jeremy, you say that we desperately need to rethink our place on this planet.

What is the risk?

What do you see as the timeline? Well, the risk is existential in a very formidable way. You know, let me back up and provide a little context for this,

if we could. What's happened is we've misjudged the nature of our existence on this little planet

in the universe for 6,000 years. This is a long time coming. We've long believed that we live on a

land planet. And as you remember, that was all shattered in 1972 when our Apollo's astronauts were heading to the moon.

And as they were approaching the moon, one of the astronauts had a home camera.

And he shot a photo back of our planet.

And it shocked our entire generation.

We thought we were going to see a beautiful, verdant land planet in all the

shades of green. What we saw was a beautiful blue planet in all the shades of blue.

98% of the planet is covered in water.

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