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  • The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

  • Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
  • By: Peter Zeihan
  • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan
  • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (543 ratings)

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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

By: Peter Zeihan
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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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©2022 Peter Zeihan (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers
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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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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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Fascinating read

Hugely interesting volume of work providing a historical and forward looking view on global matters including finance, energy and agriculture. Only slight grumble is the author’s almost giddy perspective in each chapter that the USA is where it’s at, and the rest of the world is almost backward by comparison.

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Outstanding

Most comprehensive geo-political book I’ve listened to in a long time, up there with the greats.

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Grim and tasty

Yes, the predictions made in this book are not the most optimistic, but that doesn't mean it's not one of the most appealing dives in our geopolitical future. It's a very thoroughly researched piece of knowledge in geography, geopolitics and economics and I highly recommended. The occasional punchlines make it even better. It's strange how such a sad forecast can make you want to listen to it again.

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Insightful

Great analysis of the current situation of the wolrd and a sound well-informed prediction on the future. Great listen

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Thank you Peter

Epic, mind blowing
There is do much to think about.
100% recommended
Thank you Peter

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Outstanding

I loved this book !!! Wonderfully written and Narrated!!! So many interesting facts !

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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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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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