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THE END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING

PETER ZEIHAN

 

Subtitle: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, Harper Business, N.Y., 2022, 497 pgs., index, tables, maps

 
 

Reviewer comment:
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Introduction:

 
 

Section I: The End of an Era

 
 

How the Beginning Began

 
 

Enter the Accidental Superpower

 
 

And Now for Something Completely Different

 
 

The Story of ...

 
 

History Speeds Up[

 
 

Learning a Scary Word

 
 

The End of More

 
 

Messy, Messy Models

 
 

The Last Bits of More

 
 

A Quick Note from the author ... and Moscow

 
 

Section II: Transport

 
 

The Long, Long Road

 
 

Breaking Free: Industrializing Transport

 
 

The Americanization of Trade

 
 

The Great Unmaking

 
 

Harbors in the Storm

 
 

Section III: Finance 

 
 

Currencies: Navigating the Road Less Traveled

 
 

Adventures in Capital 

 
 

Disaster Is Relative

 
 

The End of More, Redux: Demographics and Capital

 
 

A Credit Compendium

 
 

Finagling Future Financing Failures

 
 

Section IV: Energy

 
 

Harpooning Progress

 
 

The Order's Order for Oil

 
 

The Map of Oil: Contemporary Edition

 
 

There's More to Oil than Oil

 
 

Fueling the Future

 
 

Section V: Industrial Materials

 
 

Disassembling History

 
 

The Essential Materials

 
 

The Future Materials

 
 

The Always Materials

 
 

The Funky Materials

 
 

The Reliable Materials

 
 

This Is How the World Ends

 
 

Section VI: Manufacturing

 
 

Crafting the World We Know

 
 

The Map of the Present

 
 

The Map of the Future

 
 

Manufacturing a New World

 
 

Section VII: Agriculture

 
 

What's at Stake

 
 

The Geopolitics of Vulnerability

 
 

Avoiding -- or Accepting -- the Worst

 
 

Mitigating Famine

 
 

Expanding the Diet, Shrinking the Diet

 
 

Agriculture and Climate Change

 
 

Feeding a New World

 
 

The Long Ride of the Third Horseman

 
 

Epilogue

 
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