Section I. The End of an Era. How the Beginning Began -- Enter the Accidental Superpower -- And Now for Something Completely Different -- The Story of Us -- History Speeds Up -- Learning a Scary Word -- The End of More -- Messy, Messy Models -- The Last Bits of More -- A Quick Note from the Author and Moscow -- Section II. Transport. The Long, Long Road -- Breaking Free: Industrializing Transport -- The Americanization of Trade -- The Great Unmaking -- Harbors in the Storm -- Section III. Finance. Currencies: Navigating the Road Less Traveled -- Adventures in Capital -- Disaster Is Relative -- The End of More, Redux: Demographics and Capital -- A Credit Compendium -- Finagling Future Financing Failures -- Section IV. Energy. Harpooning Progress -- The Order's Order for Oil -- The Map of Oil: Contemporary Edition -- There's More to Oil than Oil -- Fueling the Future -- Section V. Industrial Materials. Disassembling History -- The Essential Materials -- The Future Materials -- The Always Materials -- The Funky Materials -- The Reliable Materials -- This Is How the World Ends -- Section VI. Manufacturing. Crafting the World We Know -- The Map of the Present -- The Map of the Future -- Manufacturing a New World -- Section VII. Agriculture. What's at Stake -- The Geopolitics of Vulnerability -- Avoiding-or Accepting-the Worst -- Mitigating Famine -- Expanding the Diet, Shrinking the Diet -- Agriculture and Climate Change -- Feeding a New World -- The Long Ride of the Third Horseman.
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