The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

By: Peter Zeihan

Narrated 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.

A tidal wave of information, done well

Rarely, if ever, are Authors able to narrate their own books well. Peter takes his book to another level. So much of this book’s conclusions are dismal. Peter’s engagingly conversational style makes the audiobook seem like an extended dinner party conversation that goes on for hours. Please pass me another glass of wine. Don’t pass by this purchase. You will enjoy it and be enlightened.

Amazing book, just like all of his others

Peter is the undisputed king of geopolitical prognostication. Peter correctly predicted the shale revolution, demographic declines, China's paper empire, Russia's border insecurity, etc... If Peter says that tomorrow the sky will be purple, I'll believe him as everything that he says seems to come true.

Just do it

Obnoxious and very full of himself but if this man says it I will bank on it.

I mostly use Peter's work to determine where to start my investing research.

I'm sure many do.

best way to forecast the future of the world

this is the best book on geopolitics I've listened to. I left with a confident understanding on the trends shaping the future of the world economy and culture.

Fun Book

This audio book is a good listen. If indeed Globalism is collapsing, this book will help us to understand why it’s happening and what comes next.