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Move : the forces uprooting us and shaping humanity's destiny / by Parag Khanna.

Khanna, Parag, (author.).

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"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982168971
  • ISBN: 1982168978
  • ISBN: 9781982168988
  • ISBN: 1982168986
  • Physical Description: xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Scribner, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Human geography.
Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects.
Migration, Internal > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects.
Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Human geography.
Migration, Internal > Environmental aspects.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 304.2 KHANNA 2021 (Text) 0001002382685 Nonfiction Available -

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Move : The Forces Uprooting Us
Move : The Forces Uprooting Us
by Khanna, Parag
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Move : The Forces Uprooting Us


*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.

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