A review by statman
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan

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.