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The Power of Crisis
- How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
- Narrated by: Willis Sparks
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
New York Times Bestseller
Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.
In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges that will soon confront us all.
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their implications.
The good news? Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well and quickly enough to limit the fallout—and, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world.
Drawing on strategies both time-honored and cutting-edge, from the Marshall Plan to the Green New Deal, The Power of Crisis provides a roadmap for surviving—even thriving in—the 21st century. Bremmer shows governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen how we can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.
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- 13-06-2022
Collaborate or perish.
A really interesting book. It’s succinct but broad. A Geo-political essential text. Highly recommend.
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- 03-09-2022
An eye opening and important read
this book paints a bare image of our time and the issues and challenges we face. offers a warning of what is potentially to come, yet also offers solutions and hope that we can use these challenges to unite, and address them together.
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- 22-07-2022
Thought provoking
Ian Bremmers discussions on the world threats we are currently facing and facing into are a thought provoking big picture analysis of our global situation and attitudes that are needed to divert us from disaster. Tradition One of a 12 step program is “Our common welfare must come first, personal recovery depends on it’ Mr Bremmer bought this into sharper focus for me even at a personal level. He also left me with hope that humanity can rise and live by common welfare principles just as any recovering alcoholic/addict learns if they are guided by 12 Step principles.
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