Read by Peter Zeihan

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.

All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.

In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.

A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence. 

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

THE END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING by Peter Zeihan

Recorded at the 2022 Universe in Verse: theuniverseinverse.org

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/14/the-beginning-and-the-end-robinson-jeffers

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

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The markets are so far entirely unconvinced that the new administration’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/22/liz-trusss-selective-reaganomics-wont-work?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reagan-esque economic plans</a> will work to spur growth—just look at <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/09/26/the-pound-is-plumbing-near-historical-depths-why?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sterling's tumble</a>. In Tibet, China’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2022/09/13/chinas-government-is-mass-collecting-dna-from-tibetans?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mass collection</a> of DNA samples has one unabashed motive: social control. And the curious wave of “unretirees” <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/09/15/against-expectations-covid-19-retirees-are-returning-to-work?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">returning to work</a> after the pandemic.Additional audio courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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Solen stiger upp över åsen och belyser staden bakifrån i gryningen, fjorden i dimma, tycks oändligt stor. Det känns som slutet på en väg.
Trondheim, vandrarnas och pilgrimernas stad. I Barockplanens stränga inre finns smitvägar som en undervegetation. Trondheim gör motstånd, odlar sin undervegetation. 

Men här finns också liberalismens grepp om sinnena. Staden är börs och katedral, säger någon. Det är business, cynism och spekulation, i skuggan av Nidarosdomen, mitt i det landskap som är som en amfiteater.

Studenterna skrålar från ett fönster i Möllenberg.  En gång i tiden bodde arbetare på dessa bakgårdar, trång och mörkt. Idag präglas området, av många små fastighetsägare – och intresset här är att så mycket som möjligt tjäna pengar på studenter. Möllenberg är både historiskt och i nutid en plats för spekulation i människors mest basala behov, att bo.

Den här liberalismens grepp om sinnena väcker ju motstånd i olika tider, som är synliga i Trondheim. Det tidiga 1900-talets trädgårdsstäder, eller storgårdskvarter till exempel, och idag med föreställningar om ett annat sätt att tänka om städer i Norge i ett experimentområde där man utmanar den idé som har byggt den norska bostadspolitiken och bostadsplaneringen under stora delar av de senare hundra åren, att man ska äga sin lägenhet. Den individuella friheten i det har kommit att ifrågasättas på senare tid. 

I Trondheim finns det en mindre stadsdel som är en bygg manifestation av detta ifrågasättande, det som heter Svartlamoen. Undervegetationen fortsätter att växa i Trondheim, andra vägar är öppna.

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