Move

  • Author Parag Khanna
  • Narrator Nezar Alderazi
  • Publisher Orion
  • Run Time 10 hours and 46 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Geopolitics.
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What to expect

Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050?

In the 60,000 years since people began colonising the continents, a recurring feature of human civilisation has been mobility - the constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events - wars and genocides, revolutions and pandemics - 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 destabilise 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?

Here global strategy advisor Parag Khanna provides an illuminating and authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilisation - one that is both mobile and sustainable. As the book explores, 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 that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Most importantly, it guides each of us as we determine our optimal location on humanity's ever-changing map.

Critics Review

  • Despite the calls in parts of the west to halt the flows of people, Khanna sees mass migration as both inevitable and welcome. But his work also contains dark forecasts about how much migration will be driven by the changing climate

    FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of 2021
  • Daring, smart, unforgettable . . . A rich exploration of our times and the way forward

    ELIF SHAFAK, author of 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
  • Scintillating . . . In a political climate where the oldest human impulse – to move for a better life for ourselves and our kids – is demonised by nationalists across the world, Khanna offers a clear-eyed, unapologetic defence of the right to migrate

    SUKETU MEHTA, author of MAXIMUM CITY and THIS LAND IS OUR LAND
  • Thought provoking . . . As this book demonstrates, the climate crisis is just one of many forces that will have humans more on the move this century

    BILL McKIBBEN, author FALTER
  • A real eye opener . . . Move makes clear that, though ‘mobility’ can be for some a desperate flight for refuge, it’s also – for younger generations growing into a multi-cultural, one-planet civilisation – a new expression of possibility

    KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, author of MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
  • Impressive . . . Parag Khanna proves again why he is one of the world’s most incisive thinkers . . . The book’s great accomplishment is that it not only reveals what will soon be upon us, but what lies ahead for our children and grandchildren

    ALEC ROSS, author of THE INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE

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