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The Power of Crisis
- How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
- Narrated by: Willis Sparks
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
New York Times Bestseller
Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.
In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges that will soon confront us all.
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their implications.
The good news? Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well and quickly enough to limit the fallout—and, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world.
Drawing on strategies both time-honored and cutting-edge, from the Marshall Plan to the Green New Deal, The Power of Crisis provides a roadmap for surviving—even thriving in—the 21st century. Bremmer shows governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen how we can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-22
brilliant but im sure the recording quality is off
brilliant on all counts but the sound quality seems to come in and out through most of a couple of chapters
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- Linnie Toh
- 08-06-22
Not a Wonk
This selection was the one I chose to teach me what is going on globally and the options we have for the future. This book suited all my needs. The narration was excellent which is something I looked to for every book I buy. The themes were clearly presented and followed through completely. I have always admired Mr. bremmer and his work.
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- Tom
- 07-06-22
Excellent Synthesis of the Current State of the World
I very much enjoyed hearing Ian Bremmer’s take on the intersection of current events, economics, and politics. This book is yet another exercise that provides perspective on the Status Quo, speculation on the near and distant future, and hypotheses for possible solutions to the challenges facing us and our children.
While some may dismiss his more optimistic scenarios, he makes a solid case for the crises we face and their consequences if they are not faced seriously and rationally. What I most appreciate is the global perspective he brings even though he admits to a Western bias, he is not an Ultra-Nationalist America Firster. All his solutions are based in hoped-for intelligent analysis and compromise.
Global Health, Climate Change, and AI and related, ever-evolving Technologies are our future and if we don’t take steps to address these crises, our future may be “poorer, more nasty, brutish, and short” than we have hoped.
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- Veronica Zerrer
- 09-07-22
Problems and solutions
I recommend listening to the intro and last chapter first. It’s the last one that summarizes Bremmer’s astute conclusions in each of the crisis he explores: the Red-Blue American divide; how to compete and contend with a testy and tetchy China; and climate change.
Bremmer’s explanations of issues cuts through erudite prose, presenting the issues in a manner that make sense to steel workers and scholars alike. A good listen for commuters, road trips, long flights, housework, farmers, long haul truckers, and more. Bremmer is an “every man’s scholar.”
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- Anonymous User
- 30-06-23
Cheerleader for China
The story that the author laid out, is basically charity for the Chinese communist party. That they’re not as bad as a percent that everybody else in Chinese perspective all the world differently than it actually is. Facebook with a grain of salt.
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- Michael Rollins
- 06-06-23
Insightful and thought-provoking
This timely book provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the key geopolitical factors that shape our reality, and provides a sense to where we are headed in the future. I looked hard for the liberal bias mentioned in some of the other reviews, but I’m afraid I couldn’t find any. I can only assume these were based on the handful of critical comments the author makes about Trump, but if anything I would say his handling of the topic was forgiving at best.
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- Lee Changsup
- 22-05-23
Abuse of technology, climate, globalization and hefemony
Very insightful, thought-provoking. The subdivided topics merit attention that contemporary people should not miss.
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- Suspense fan
- 01-05-23
Whiny liberal talking points after 1 hour
I'll keep going as long as I can stand it and update when I'm done. The whole premise of this genre is that it rises above politics, but this hasn't happened here. Peter Zeihan (clearly a leftist) does a far superior job of putting aside partisan talking points. Maybe it will get better.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-04-23
Simplistic explanations, lazy surface observations
Doesn't offer statics or evidence to back common mainstream but highly contested claims, couldn't hold my attention as a result.
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- Andrew Baerst
- 06-02-23
Solid premise, light on support.
Good book if you’re coming at this topic with little to no background knowledge, but it’s full of grand proclamations and words like, “innumerable, countless,” and, “in all of history” with little supporting information. I agree with the basic premise and conclusion of the book, but it didn’t have the depth that I thought it deserved.
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- Kevin C Lynch
- 29-01-23
concise and easy to understand
As a history teacher who keeps up with current events through multiple news sites, I found this amazing. If you are just now trying to learn about the world, you might need to learn some context about the last 80 years to get the most out of this book, but for people who have even a passing understanding of world history, this should make perfect sense. I personally lean left on the American political scale, and I wonder if people on the hard right will be able to appreciate it, but he really does have great advice that all of should be taking to heart.
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