Reviews
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
alitrevisan105's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
statman's review against another edition
3.0
The first book that I've read that considers a future post-pandemic world. Building off data around finance, agriculture, population demographics and more, Zeihan makes a case for why globalization has done all it will do and everything is downhill from here. The biggest culprit is the fertility rate declines which over the next 50 years will lead to declines in population and wreck the growth model that our economy is based on. I'm not sure declines will be quite as severe as Zeihan argues (he believes there will be widespread famines and that countries will simply stop working with each other as standards of living decline for everyone), but it does make me want to make sure I've got a good supply of food storage.
nanikeeva's review against another edition
4.0
a good and honest projection of the breakdown of global systems, ranging from supply chains to agriculture to transport to energy. the only issue is that it's still a canary in a coal mine, and the only "concrete proof" it's all based on is demographic decline, essentially. time to beef it up with more evidence and have people actually care about societal collapse (and climate change, hopefully)!
bennynickels's review against another edition
2.0
by the third chapter, zeihan secures his place in my nightmare blunt rotation. however he has taught me much about this world