New energy study misses some of the realties of the climate crisis

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Daniel Yergin has a deep understanding of the oil industry, but he’s so embedded in old patterns of thought that he can’t quite recognise the urgency of the climate crisis, writes Bill McKibben

. This summer has had the highest reliably measured temperature in history ; record rainfall across large swaths of Africa that has, for instance, destroyed a quarter of Nigeria’s rice crop; and blazes across vast areas of Siberia have poured record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. We are, in other words, in a climate emergency.The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Poweris written in magisterial mode, staring down from the heights of history at the great men who make it.

 

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