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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
- Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
2019 was the last great year for the world economy.
For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.
America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.
All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.
In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.
The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.
A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.
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- Mark p
- 05-08-22
Terrifying
An incredibly eye opening/mortifying/stressful/well researched/well presented look into what appears to be a bleak future. Fascinating and well performed, but if you are a worrier by nature avoid at all costs!
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- Nick O.
- 07-01-24
Detail
Brilliant as always from Peter, succinct and extraordinary detail with some mind numbing facts should be statutory reading for everyone
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- Brian Hennessy
- 19-04-23
Thank you Peter
Epic, mind blowing
There is do much to think about.
100% recommended
Thank you Peter
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- Phillip
- 30-04-23
Outstanding
I loved this book !!! Wonderfully written and Narrated!!! So many interesting facts !
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- David
- 13-07-22
Challenges your received thinking, excellent.
Great book. Strong on specifics while commanding macro vision. Great balance between the breadth of the books academic scope and depth of study in demographics, supply chains, energy, manufacturing and agriculture. Only criticism of what is an inspiring read is that conclusions are a bit too binary with absolute winners and losers. This helps emphasize the points made. However, people are amazingly resilient when challenged so the future is always uncertain. Peter knows this, but I suspect enjoys the drama of clean focused conclusions, even if a bit too clean. One serious counter point not addressed is the difference between the State and individuals in the State. A population can decline and the State lose relative power while the individuals within it, supported by modest tech progress, can still live prosperous lives.
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- MD
- 26-08-22
Well written and well read...But we're so screwed!
An astonishing vision of the civilizational collapse that is just around the corner. Incredible but dark, entertaining but sobering, informative but bleak.
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- Paul Murphy
- 27-06-22
Ignorance is bliss?
Well, if you don't happen to agree with that piece of biblical advice....you're starting in a good place.
At least you'll know...
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- Ignotas Sulzenko
- 19-02-23
Not convinced on trading routes disappearing
While it’s true that the US has grat geographic and demographic advantages, the author goes a step too far describing how other countries are necessarily doomed. The entire book is based on the assumption that global trade is going to collapse without the US help to patrol the trading routes. I don’t find it convincing. How do you imagine pirates hijack an oil tanker? Drain the oil into their boat? Take the tanker to Somalia and then what? How do you pirate in the baltic sea, where do you hide, where do you refuel? Being a pirate nowadays requires some serious logistics and there is no escape from a cruise missle hitting your HQ wherever you are. With this argument gone, the entire book becomes much shorter
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- Nicholas Wilkinson
- 22-01-23
A comprehensive analysis of the predicaments facing the world
A riveting prediction on the worrying future of humanity. The author analyses how every moving part of geopolitics and climate will change our future for decades to come.
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- Chris
- 07-11-23
Awesome book
Best read out there at the moment. Well done peter on this book! Loved all the knowledge
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