The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

This is a revealing account of how energy revolutions, climate wars, and geopolitics will affect our future. A brilliant storyteller, Yergin takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the "new map" of the world that is already taking shape as a result of dramatic changes in the spheres of some states' political interests and energy. The author shows and explains in detail how the new future of our planet is being born, and describes the inevitable problems that we will have to face in the near future. His focus is on the unexpected shale revolution, which is changing America's place in the world, and the role of energy in the new Cold War between the United States on one side and Russia and China on the other. This transformation of global energy markets and the global geopolitical balance is leading us to an "energy turn": a transition from the world of today-where fossil energy sources are the mainstay-to a world that increasingly uses renewable energy sources.