The new map : energy, climate and the clash of nations / Daniel Yergin.

"Published with a new epilogue and appendix" -- Title page verso.

"The Appendix was originally published, in slightly different form, as The World's Most Important Body of Water, in The Atlantic on December 15, 2020" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-504) and index.

Introduction -- The gas man -- The "discovery" of shale oil -- "If you had told me ten years ago" : the manufacturing renaissance -- The new gas exporter -- Closing and opening: Mexico and Brazil -- Pipeline battles -- The shale era -- The rebalancing of geopolitics -- Putin's great project -- Crises over gas -- Clash over energy security -- Ukraine and new sanctions -- Oil and the state -- Pushback -- Pivoting to the East -- The heartland -- The "G2" -- "Dangerous ground" -- The three questions -- "Count on the wisdom of following generations" -- The role of history -- Oil and water? -- China's new treasure ships -- The test of prudence -- Belt and road building -- Iran's revolution -- Wars in the Gulf -- A regional cold war -- The struggle for Iraq -- The arc of confrontation -- The rise of the "Eastern Med" -- "The answer" -- Oil shock -- Run for the future -- The plague -- The electric charge -- Enter the robot -- Hailing the future -- Auto-tech -- Energy transition -- Green deals -- The renewable landscape -- Breakthrough technologies -- What does "energy transition" mean in the developing world? -- The changing mix -- Conclusion: The disrupted future -- Epilogue: Net Zero -- Appendix: The Four Ghosts Who Haunt the South China Sea.

America's new map. Russia's map. China's map. Maps of the Middle East. Lines in the sand -- Roadmap. Climate map.

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. Out of this tumult is emerging a new map of energy and geopolitics. 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. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging the global 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 the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. 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 South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being 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-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. -- Provided by publisher.