The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin (Author). This lengthy-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-successful The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and financial change.
Renowned energy authority Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize, on this gripping account of the hunt for the power the world needs — and the power and riches that come with it. A master story teller in addition to one of the world’s nice experts, Yergin proves that power is really the engine of worldwide political and financial change, in addition to central to the battle over local weather change. From the jammed streets of Beijing, the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the conflicts within the Mideast, to Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley, Yergin takes us inside the selections and decisions that are shaping our future. Without understanding the realities of energy examined in The Quest, we could give up our place at the helm of history.
One among our nice narrative writers, Yergin tells the within stories — of the oil market, the rise of the “petrostate”, the race to regulate the sources of the former Soviet empire, and the large corporate mergers that remodeled the oil landscape. He shows how the drama of oil-the battle for entry to it, the battle for control, the insecurity of supply, the results of its use, its influence on the global financial system, and the geopolitics that dominate it-will continue to shape our world. He takes on the hardest questions — will we run out of oil, and are China and the United States destined to battle over oil?
Yergin additionally reveals the surprising and the turbulent historical past of nuclear, coal, electricity, and pure gas. He investigates the “rebirth of renewables” — – biofuels and wind, as well as solar vitality, which enterprise capitalists are betting shall be “the next massive thing” for assembly the needs of a growing world economy. He makes clear why understanding this greening landscape and its future role are crucial.
Yergin additional brings climate develop into distinctive perspective by providing an authentic and unprecedented historical past of how the difficulty went from concerning a handful of scientists, fearful of a new Ice Age, to one of the overarching issues of our times.
The Quest presents an unprecedented variety of characters and a panorama of dramatic stories that illustrate the principles that will shape a sturdy and flexible vitality security system for the decades to come. It is a rare achievement from an author who is actually one among our nation’s nice resources.
This is a wonderful ebook for those who do not know much concerning the birth of contemporary civilization and the growing pains we have now endured and the troublesome legacy that we will go away for future generations. It’s a guide that each faculty pupil must be required to read earlier than they obtain their degree. I did skip the massive chapter on climate change, as a result of I believe human actions have accelerated climate change, which occurs naturally as a part of the Earth’s evolution. Vitality safety is as vital as financial, cyber and defense securities to every nation on Earth. Let’s all use energy responsibly and help rising economies scale back their emission problems.
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin (Author)
816 pages
Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition (September 20, 2011)
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