Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new
account of how energy revolutions climate battles and geopolitics are mapping our future The
world is being shaken by the collision of energy climate change and the clashing power of
nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas has transformed the
American economy ending the "era of shortage" but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost
overnight the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse-and during
the coronavirus crisis brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern
about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life accelerating
a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made
starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has
wrought. World politics is being upended as a new cold war develops between the United States
and China and our rivalry with Russia grows more dangerous. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi
Jinping are converging both on energy and on challenging American leadership as China projects
its power and influence in all directions. The map of the Middle East laid down after World
War I is challenged by jihadists revolutionary Iran ethnic and religious clashes and
restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price
collapses-one from the rise of shale the other the coronavirus-and by the very question of
oil's future in the rest of this century. A master storyteller and global energy expert
Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's new
map. He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions in an era of rising political
turbulence and points to the profound challenges that lie ahead. Story Locale: Global
