The'Epic Poem'of Evolving Global Oil Politics

摘要

"A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams." - Gilbert H. Grosvenor This quote came to mind recently while reading Daniel Yergin's latest book, "The New Map - Energy, Climate, and Clash of Nations." It's a marvelous description of how geopolitics and energy are shaping our world today - and how the novel coronavirus turned everything upside down. An epic poem indeed. It's familiar territory for Yergin, who has spent a career chronicling the interplay of geopolitics and energy. But "The New Map" brings us current, painting an image of where these major shifts are taking us. It's a composite of five different maps, and - fair warning - at the outer edges, as urban legend has it, there be dragons.