Commentary
California’s regnant political class sees almost every policy in terms of inspiring the world to adopt policies similar to ours on global warming or climate change. A recently published book will disabuse anyone who reads it of that notion, because it shows our reliance on the traditional industrial-age fuels, coal, and petrochemicals inevitably will get greater, not smaller.
The 2022 book is “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization,” by Peter Zeihan. I have objections to some of his analyses, such as his Keynesian view of monetary theory. But no matter. It’s the right kind of the book of this type, providing a great amount of data the reader can analyze and use to come to his own conclusions….