Thank you, Chris. I was about to blow up from having to read quotes from Martin Wolf, but then you switched over to Jason Hickel. Hickel’s points are right on, but there is a problem. All our dreamy “We” should do this, and “We” should do that, are totally useless now. The book to be reviewing is https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/714717/a-map-of-the-new-normal-by-jeff-rubin/9780735246119 which tells how the Biden administration has debased the dollar, knocking it off its status as world reserve currency and how world trade and banking have been permanently fractured along geopolitical lines. It is imperative that the ongoing progress towards a war with China be stopped and reversed, which would also include disbanding US Indo-Pacific Command. At present, the progress toward full-out war is along economic lines, such as chip wars (US is losing) meanwhile China has the economic clout AND massive reserves of US Treasuries enough that at any point could put US into sovereign default. You must understand the arc of geopolitical policy from Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński through H.R. Clinton to Biden re Ukraine and how Biden’s use of sanctions have fractured the entire world order so that all nations are arming up for the final conflagration. Jeff Rubin’s last line (page 241) is: “…as we sail further along this course of seemingly inevitable global conflict and accompanying profound economic change, there is no turning back to the world we once knew. It simply no longer exists.” What you KNEW about the workings of the “economy” are as irrelevant as Greek mythology; any notion of environmental action is meaningless in the face of approaching world war. How people vote in this year’s election seals the fate of humanity and Life. Choose better!
Great review of what sounds like a great book – Thanks!
Thank you, Chris. I was about to blow up from having to read quotes from Martin Wolf, but then you switched over to Jason Hickel. Hickel’s points are right on, but there is a problem. All our dreamy “We” should do this, and “We” should do that, are totally useless now. The book to be reviewing is https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/714717/a-map-of-the-new-normal-by-jeff-rubin/9780735246119 which tells how the Biden administration has debased the dollar, knocking it off its status as world reserve currency and how world trade and banking have been permanently fractured along geopolitical lines. It is imperative that the ongoing progress towards a war with China be stopped and reversed, which would also include disbanding US Indo-Pacific Command. At present, the progress toward full-out war is along economic lines, such as chip wars (US is losing) meanwhile China has the economic clout AND massive reserves of US Treasuries enough that at any point could put US into sovereign default. You must understand the arc of geopolitical policy from Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński through H.R. Clinton to Biden re Ukraine and how Biden’s use of sanctions have fractured the entire world order so that all nations are arming up for the final conflagration. Jeff Rubin’s last line (page 241) is: “…as we sail further along this course of seemingly inevitable global conflict and accompanying profound economic change, there is no turning back to the world we once knew. It simply no longer exists.” What you KNEW about the workings of the “economy” are as irrelevant as Greek mythology; any notion of environmental action is meaningless in the face of approaching world war. How people vote in this year’s election seals the fate of humanity and Life. Choose better!