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A timely weekend non-fiction book review, in light of everything going on in the World…and also because Pastors also need a break from heavy theological reading.
Peter Zeihan. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning. New York, NY: Harper, June 10, 2022. 512 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
Want to understand better the world we are living in with globalism and how things will be with the approaching end of globalism? This book by Peter Zeihan a geo-political strategist might be for you. Zeihan’s prediction is dark, for the larger part of the globe, though there’s more optimism with the United States geographically when globalism ends. I first discovered a lecture by him during 2020 and what a year that was when we saw the disruption of the global supply chain. He looks at the relationship of raw materials, geography and demographic and observe their trends and from that explore also how that impact the political dimension and I think that’s quite interdisciplinary of him to bring these areas together to help make sense of the present and make some kind of forecast into the future. I know some have faulted him for not exploring the role of ideology in political decisions that impact nations and therefore international relations but still I think there’s some hard facts of economic realities concerning resources and geography and demographics that should also be factored in with regards to how countries behave and the policies they pursue.
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