The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan

Spencer Schar is an entrepreneur who enjoys reading in his spare time, and he particularly enjoys the works of Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahnemann, Malcolm Gladwell, and Peter Zeihan. This article will look at Peter Zeihan’s book The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, which explores the risk of deglobalization and ‘decivilization’, culminating in food shortages for much of the global population.

1. Spencer Schar
The End of the World Is
Just the Beginning by
Peter Zeihan

2. The End of the
World Is Just the
Beginning by Peter
Zeihan
Spencer Schar is an entrepreneur who enjoys reading in his spare time,
and he particularly enjoys the works of Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahnemann,
Malcolm Gladwell, and Peter Zeihan. This article will look at Peter Zeihan’s
book The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, which explores the risk
of deglobalization and ‘decivilization’, culminating in food shortages for
much of the global population.
Although some warn that deglobalization may have already started, few
explore its potential impact on the global population in much detail. In a
book spanning almost 500 pages, Peter Zeihantheorizes what the world
may look like following the collapse of globalization, assuring readers
that these are not ‘imaginations but the result of a serious process of
prospective analysis.

3. Zeihanbases his elaborations on a change in behavior by the United
States. He suggests that the US will no longer need the rest of the world
in the same way it once did, with fracking providing the country with
energy independence. Zeihanalso points out that the US is less likely to
invest in building and maintaining alliances with other countries, as it no
longer needs backup in the face of a powerful military enemy as was
once posed by the USSR.
As a result, Peter Zeihanpredicts that the United States will scale back
its sea patrols, leaving the world’s oceans without custody. This will pre-
empt a decline in global trade, which has been expanding since the mid-
1940s.
The End of the
World Is Just the
Beginning by Peter
Zeihan

4. For generations, humankind has strived to develop faster, better, more cost-
effective ways of doing things. However, Peter Zeihansuggests that we may have
reached a tipping point. In The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, the author
and geopolitical strategist presents scope for a “next” world where countries and
regions have no other option but to manufacture their own goods, secure their own
energy, grow their own food, and fight their own battles, relying on populations that
are both shrinking and aging.
Zeihanguides readers on an illuminating yet disconcerting journey; the book is
packed with foresight, as well as his trademark irreverence and wit. The End of the
World Is Just the Beginning has been well received, with US Army Maneuver Centre
of Excellence Commanding Officer Major General Patrick Donahoe describing it as
“a worthy read” and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer hailing Zeihan’swork as
“an original yet intuitive theory of geopolitics.”
The End of the
World Is Just the
Beginning by Peter
Zeihan