Book: 20220915 to 20221204, "The End of the world is just the beginning" by Peter Zeihan
20220915 - Introduction De-globalization decrease general productivity, but make global economy more robust. I am surprised that Peter Zeihan said USA would benefit from de-globalization, but it makes perfect sense. USA is in very good geographical location, and almost all other countries would get negative impacts. 20220917 - Section I: The End of an Era 20220917 - How the Beginning Began For hunting and gathering lifestyle, people cannot stay in one place for more than a few weeks, as there will be no enough food to pick up. They have to keep wandering. It's hard to find proper location to start farming. The weather needs to be warm, so can do farming all seasons; it needs to have enough water to irrigate the plants; the land has to be easy to protect from other tribes, so they will not be robbed at harvesting time. So the best place is warm and low elevated river area which surrounded by desert or ocean. Energy is the key factor to civilization evolvement. Energy utilization imp