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Move: The Forces Uprooting Us

Move: The Forces Uprooting Us

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*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.

Author: Parag Khanna
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.22w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781982168971

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2021 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 08/02/2021
Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 82
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 4

About the Author
Parag Khanna is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a global strategic advisory firm that specializes in data-driven scenarios and visualizations. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including The Second World, Connectography, and The Future Is Asian. Parag was named one of Esquire's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century" and featured in WIRED magazine's "Smart List." He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and both a bachelor's and master's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 150 countries.

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