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A review by rossbm
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us and Shaping Humanity's Destiny by Parag Khanna
1.0
(read as ebook)
I only read about a quarter of this book before giving up. From glaring factual inaccuracies to wild predictions and glib prescriptions, the book disappoints on multiple levels. For example, Khanna causaly throws out that Japanese life expectancy is 107 years. In fact, a quick Google search reveals that it is more like 85. Even ChatGPT gets this right. Khanna makes some pretty wild predictions about about how the world will respond to an aging population and global warming. The book would have been much better if it has focused on just a couple of the more interesting and realistic scenarios. Instead, Khanna keeps throwing out weirder and wilder scenarios in an almost offhanded way without providing any believable path to these scenarios. To top it off, Khanna's prescriptions can be both laughably simple and offensive. For example, he suggests that depopulated areas could be used as toxic and nuclear waste dumps.
I only read about a quarter of this book before giving up. From glaring factual inaccuracies to wild predictions and glib prescriptions, the book disappoints on multiple levels. For example, Khanna causaly throws out that Japanese life expectancy is 107 years. In fact, a quick Google search reveals that it is more like 85. Even ChatGPT gets this right. Khanna makes some pretty wild predictions about about how the world will respond to an aging population and global warming. The book would have been much better if it has focused on just a couple of the more interesting and realistic scenarios. Instead, Khanna keeps throwing out weirder and wilder scenarios in an almost offhanded way without providing any believable path to these scenarios. To top it off, Khanna's prescriptions can be both laughably simple and offensive. For example, he suggests that depopulated areas could be used as toxic and nuclear waste dumps.