This episode’s guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert Daniel Yergin. Daniel is vice-chairman of the research firm IHS Markit and has served on the Secretary of Energy’s advisory board under the last four presidential administrations. Daniel talks with Andrew and Scott about his latest book,
The New Map, and the way technology revolutions in energy are influencing geopolitics, security, climate, and health.
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Reading Notes:
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future.
‘Farewell, fossil fuels’? What oil’s demise will do to the world’s leading economies
Daniel Yergin points out that challenges lie ahead for oil giants like Russia and Saudi Arabia unless they transform their economies quickly.