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The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World by Ian Bremmer
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, T he P ower of C risis 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. Read more
This book is divided into four main chapters, followed by a Conclusion and an Addendum, for a total of about 207 pages, not including Acknowledgments. In the Introduction, Bremmer uses a story about a 1985 conversation betweeen Reagan and Gorbachev to illustrate a point: that when facing a potential global crisis, the world CAN work together to create a better future. In this particular example Reagan had asked Gorbachev if the USSR would assist America in fighting an alien invasion if it ever happened(really); but Bremmer contends that the general idea can still be relevant today. He sees multiple potential crises in the future, that could potentially require global cooperation to survive. The first issue(s) Bremmer addresses is the American political divide, and a potential new Cold War between the US and China. These are really two separate issues, but he addresses both of them in Chapter 1. He warns that the dysfunctional American political system will cause major problems in the future, and he gives a few suggestions for bridging the political divide in America; because crises will arise that require bipartisan solutions. He also urges cooperation with China, to avoid another Cold War, for the same reasons. In Chapter 2 Bremmer focuses on the potential problem of future pandemics. He points out lessons that we should have learned from Covid-19, and a few changes that will have to be made to be better prepared for an even more deadly pandemic in the future. Chapter 3 deals with climate change issues. Bremmer discusses potential mass migration issues, as rising temperatures cause disruptive weather patterns like flooding in some areas and droughts/famine in others. In Chapter 4 Bremmer explores some of the possible ramifications of new disruptive technologies. He identifies some potential risks of unchecked AI, biased or inaccurate data, automation affecting the workforce, dehumanization, increasing financial inequality, cyberwarfare, and more. Overall I found this book to be interesting, thought-provoking, and somewhat alarming. Bremmer does raise some good points, and although he doesn't have excellent solutions for all of the issues he discusses, he does a good job of identifying some potential problems that world leaders need to be thinking about right now. I also appreciated that he MOSTLY stays politically neutral, not really placing the blame on one party or the other, but focusing more on large scale cooperative solutions. It can be difficult nowadays to write a book about any global issues without upsetting half of the American public, but I think this is about as close as it gets.
Publisher -> Simon & Schuster (May 17, 2022) Language -> English Hardcover -> 272 pages ISBN-10 -> 1982167505 ISBN-13 -> 978-1982167509 Item Weight -> 1.06 pounds Dimensions -> 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches Best Sellers Rank: #6,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Environmental Policy #4 in United States Local Government #5 in Social Aspects of Technology
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