Rivers are less important to future prosperity if they remain navigable even with higher or lower flow, and Germany has engineering expertise to contain flooding, so Zeihan is not concerned about river-based European advantage flipping due to climate change.
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Peter ZeihanEvidence Quote
“if a river has higher or lower flow as long as it's still navigable it doesn't matter...the dutch are obviously the world's class at that so there's engineering that needs to be done [1:03:50]”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:04:02 AM
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