“Peter Zeihan is the Nostradamus of the twenty-first century. Using geography as his analytical foundation, he’s able to explain why nations behave the way they do today, and predict with astounding accuracy how they’ll behave tomorrow. Nowhere will you find a more objective and logical examination of geopolitical currents. A masterful blend of economics, demographics, environmental factors, cultural propellers, and realpolitik. The world is changing, especially America’s role in it, and Peter navigates this journey with clarity, rigor, and wit. If your passion is politics, investing, energy, technology, international relations or just being interesting at parties, read Peter’s book.” ― Jesse Watters “Peter Zeihan’s latest work projects a future that will challenge your assumptions on how the world works, what nations are best postured to prosper, and which are fragile. The world he envisions is fraught with danger as powers rise and ebb, but not without opportunity. A worthy read to flesh out your worldview.” ― Major General Patrick Donahoe, commanding general, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence “I’ve never been so upbeat about the end of the world. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and well written. Zeihan stitches together insights from economic geography, demography, and history to give us an original yet intuitive theory of geopolitics.” ― Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group “From time to time, we hear how ‘everything is going to change.’ None of us ever believe it. Now I do.” ― Bill Owens, former governor of Colorado “Peter Zeihan has done it again! The End of the World Is Just the Beginning offers a glimpse of the future by looking to the past. The geopolitics and demography that gave us our ‘perfect moment’ in history is passing. What is in store for us and generations to come? Move Zeihan’s latest to the top of your stack and find out.” ― Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL sniper and number one New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood “I found Peter Zeihan’s description of the future to be both plausible and provocative. Regardless of the details of how the next decades unfold, Zeihan’s book convinced me that it is at our own peril that we assume the future will look just like the present. Now more than ever, all our children―regardless of race―need to be equipped with a portable and flexible skill set that will enable them to adapt to circumstances and opportunities that we can’t even imagine right now.” ― Robert L. Woodson Sr., founder and president of the Woodson Center, 1776 Unites, Voices of Black Mothers United

Chapter Page Introduction 1 Section I The End of an Era How the Beginning Began 9 Enter the Accidental Superpower 25 And Now for Something Completely Different 36 The Story of … Us 42 History Speeds Up 47 Learning a Scary Word 62 The End of More 68 Messy, Messy Models 80 The Last Bits of More 89 A Quick Note from the Author … and Moscow 105 Section II Transport The Long, Long Road 109 Breaking Free: Industrializing Transport 117 The Americanization of Trade 123 The Great Unmaking 136 Harbors in the Storm 148 Section III Finance Currencies: Navigating the Road Less Traveled 163 Adventures in Capital 179 Disaster Is Relative 195 The End of More, Redux: Demographics and Capital 199 A Credit Compendium 204 Finagling Future Financing Failures 211 Section IV Energy Harpooning Progress 221 The Order's Order for Oil 228 The Map of Oil: Contemporary Edition 232 There's More to Oil than Oil 249 Fueling the Future 276 Section V Industrial Materials Disassembling History 281 The Essential Materials 291 The Future Materials 297 The Always Materials 302 The Funky Materials 307 The Reliable Materials 311 This Is How the World Ends 319 Section VI Manufacturing Crafting the World We Know 323 The Map of the Present 335 The Map of the Future 351 Manufacturing a New World 374 Section VII Agriculture What's at Stake 391 The Geopolitics of Vulnerability 404 Avoiding-or Accepting-the Worst 416 Mitigating Famine 424 Expanding the Diet, Shrinking the Diet 432 Agriculture and Climate Change 442 Feeding a New World 457 The Long Ride of the Third Horseman 469 Epilogue 471 Acknowledgments 477 Index 483