The speaker predicts that a major energy supply loss would deindustrialize the world and create global famine.
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Deindustrialization
The speaker predicts that a major energy supply loss would deindustrialize the world and create global famine.
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The major trends Jiang expects include deindustrialization, return from cities to countryside, nationalism, remilitarization, mercantile blocs, resource wars, famines, genocides, slavery, mass migration, and political instability in America and Europe.
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"This weekend, we have reached a turning point in the war. It is possible that in a few hours, or by tomorrow, we will..."
"if you want to fly, it might cost you 10 times as much as it does now, okay? And this will happen very, very..."
"...will die. It's that simple, all right? So massive trend is deindustrialization and deorganization, where people in the cities will have to move back..."
"able to excite their young population into fighting wars will be the ones who will be most resilient. Mercantile systems, basically independent trading blocks...."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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