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

3.0

While not agreeing with one of the major prognoses of this work regarding the dissolution of shipping and trade facility, the rest of the book offers a lot of food for thought about how the next few decades will play out in terms of demographics, climate change, power politics and resource availability. Zeihan perhaps shines best when talking about resource allocations and their potential geo-political implications. But again some of his predictions seem to be a bit off base and based on flimsier stuff. One couldn’t help but think that if this was written two decades ago the overarching theme would have been on peak oil and its implications for the 2010’s whereas of course all of that was and will be avoided; the crystal ball aint so crystal clear here, but it was definitely worth it for the what-ifs and the more factual side of the ledger.