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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning 005 by Peter Zeihan 2022 Audio/Video Book S005

Check the playlist for the entire series. You can read along with me.
Start Date: 3/1/2023

Complete Playlist:
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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan

Published: June 14, 2022
Pages: 481
Publisher: HarperCollins

Amateur Audio Video Book Reading, unrehearsed book reading session

About the Author
Peter Zeihan (born January 18, 1973) is an American geopolitical analyst and author

Zeihan was born in 1973 and grew up adopted in Iowa. In 1995, he obtained a BS in Political Science from what then was Northeast Missouri State University, a postgraduate degree in Asian studies from University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) in 1997, and from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce of the University of Kentucky in 1999

He was an analyst and later vice president for Austin-based geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor, where he spent 12 years.

In 2011 Zeihan published his first book A Crucible of Nations. In 2012 his consulting firm Zeihan on Geopolitics was founded. The clients included energy companies, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities, and other government organizations.

In 2014 he released Accidental Superpower. The book focused on topographical and geographical landmarks (rivers, oceans, mountains, etc.) as distinct advantages in a nation's ability to dominate others economically, industrially, and militarily. With the use of maps, Zeihan pointed out that navigable rivers, or access to the oceans, along with a reliable road or rail network make a critical difference, of which the U.S. is featured to have 12 navigable rivers, two oceans on its flanks, which are key in relying less on large land infrastructure projects. The Absent Superpower (2017), Disunited Nations (2020), and The End of the World Is Just the Beginning (2022).

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 listeners along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.

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