MOVE - Parag Khanna's latest insights

One of my holiday reads this year, alongside a great deal of other activity has been this one.

MOVE is the latest book by futures forecaster Parag Khanna, who works globally to explore future trends, and uses the word geography a lot as part of that work. 

It's a striking piece of work, which has something of geographical interest and relevance on every page.

There are a great many useful diagrams today, although they are reproduced in black and white in the book.

I'm pleased to hear that there is also an accompanying set of ideas for teaching in geography lessons.

The link can be found here.

It's a rather fine 80+pp PDF download which also has the images from the book and maps in full colour, which is a great addition.

There's a bit of work to be done here too to translate them into the UK education context.

Here's a description from Parag's website:

In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events—wars and genocides, revolutions and plagues—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?

MOVE provides an illuminating and authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilization—one that is both mobile and sustainable. In the years ahead people will move 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. MOVE is a fascinating look at the deep trends shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Most important, it guides each of us as we seek our optimal location on humanity's ever-changing map.

My copy was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2021.

Hardback, 334pp

ISBN: 978-1-4746-2083-3

Cross post from the GeoLibrary blog.