Move

The Forces Uprooting Us

By: Parag Khanna

Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

A “provocative” (Booklist) and compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change.

In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility - the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events - wars and genocides, revolutions and pandemics - have only accelerated the process. The map of humanity isn’t settled - not now, not ever.

As climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we’re entering a new age of mass migrations - one that will scatter both the dispossessed and the well-off. Which areas will people abandon and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? As today’s world population, which includes four billion restless youth, votes with their feet, what map of human geography will emerge?

In Move, celebrated futurist Parag Khanna provides an illuminating and authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilization - one that is both mobile and sustainable. As the book explores, in the years ahead people will move people to where the resources are and technologies will flow to the people who need them, returning us to our nomadic roots while building more secure habitats.

“An urgent, powerful argument for more open international borders” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Move is a fascinating look at the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Most important, it guides each of us as we determine our optimal location on humanity’s ever-changing map.

©2021 Parag Khanna (P)2021 Simon & Schuster Audio

Great reader, disappointing analysis

Great info on migrants and the greater good of open borders. Beyond that, everything reeks of Leninism and Marxism combined with climate fanaticism.

read this and then have a cup of tea.

billybob Thornton has had a good life. I think you get it you know

Interesting thesis but seems a little polyanish

How does this thesis fare in the face of political realities such as war and invasion and critical resource grabs ala Russia and China?

A must read!!!

I listened to it twice to truly get the message across not only for me but for the people I interact with to do some justice to such a great book. It is a message that should be shared. Thank you for writting this Parag Khanna and your narraration Nezar Alderazi was a pleasure to hear, it was organic rather than robotic. I absolutely love it.
Great research, examples and team work.

parag stuns yet again

khannna demonstrates yet again his geopolitical understanding and analytical depth, he does so with facts and stats as much as anecdotal evidences, serves it with aplomb and panache

High amounts of moralizing

The book- when it sticks to facts- is great. However, there is a clear progressive orientation on the part of the author and a progressive evangelicalism that is now typical for scholars trained in the west in the critical social sciences. The eco-messianism is not incorrect in terms of the dire implications, but the fact free moral solutions presented - which reek of now typical “moral oughts” is exhausting- not just from this book, but from the entire category of scholars. Without this moralizing about the poor and the environment (which readers would be able to infer naturally), the book would be very good.

Major Hogwash!

This book tries to convince us that mass migrations from Asia and other countries are necessary for mankind.

It just explains the one-way highway to western countries.

Why don't Asian countries fix themselves for the sake of their own population and for welcoming Westerners into their countries?

It's just a one-sided story.

Misinformation

Love the topic, but the book bends reality to serve its thesis. Many statements are simply untrue (ie - there’s a glut of housing in the US).. I found myself shouting ‘can we get a fact check??’ every few pages. Some good info, but the whole book and author lose credibility by going to great lengths to misconstrue or bend facts.

A meandering anecdotal mess

The author concludes in the opening sections that Michigan will fair best against the challenges of global warming. If you’re looking for a direct, thorough analysis to support that conclusion you won’t find anything substantive here…