Hello. This post is a collection of 24 quotes from the book - The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan. I hope you enjoy reading these quotes.
The End of the World is Just the Beginning Quotes
During the past seven decades, as a percent of the population, fewer people have died in fewer wars and fewer occupations and fewer famines and fewer disease outbreaks than since the dawn of recorded history. Historically speaking, we live in an embarrassment of riches and peace.
We have been living in a perfect moment. And it is passing. The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. Because the world—our world—is breaking apart.
The 2020s will see a collapse of consumption and production and investment and trade almost everywhere. Globalization will shatter into pieces. Some regional. Some national. Some smaller. It will be costly. It will make life slower. And above all, worse. No economic system yet imagined can function in the sort of future we face. This devolution will be jarring, to say the least.
United States is at the very top of a very short list of countries that face no near- or mid-range threats from other oceanic powers. What islands that exist in the Pacific or Atlantic basins that theoretically could be used to launch an attack on North America—Guam, Hawaii, or the Aleutians in the Pacific, or Bermuda, Newfoundland, or Iceland in the Atlantic—are held either by close allies or the Americans themselves. The Americans—and the Americans alone—have the capacity to interact with any power on either ocean on their own terms, whether those terms be economic or military.
