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Move, the forces uprooting us, Parag Khanna

Label
Move, the forces uprooting us, Parag Khanna
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrationsmapscharts
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Move
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1236260065
Responsibility statement
Parag Khanna
Sub title
the forces uprooting us
Summary
"In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events-pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe, our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled-not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises 21st century promises to contain the most dangerous and extensive experiment humanity has ever run on itself: As climates change, pandemics arrive, and economies rise and fall, which places will people leave and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? How will the billions alive today, and the billions coming, paint the next map of human geography? Until now, the study of human geography and migration has been like a weather forecast. Move delivers an authoritative look at the "climate" of migration, the deep trends that will shape the grand economic and security scenarios of the future. For readers, it will be a chance to identify their location on humanity's next map"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Prologue : Where will you live in 2050? -- Mobility is destiny -- The war for young talent -- Generation move -- The next American dream -- The European commonwealth -- Bridging regions -- Northism -- Will "the south" survive? -- The Asians are coming -- Retreat and renewal in Pacific Asia -- Quantum people -- Pax urbanica -- Civilization 3.0 -- Acknowledgements
Target audience
adult
Content
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