Guardian: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin 688pp, Polity Press, £17.99 Buy The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis at the Guardian bookshop Whoever hacked into the emails at the University of East Anglia fired the opening salvo in a new kind of dirty war. The Copenhagen conference met on the basis that dealing with global warming was in everyone’s interest. The idea that nearly 200 …