MixedThe Houston ChronicleYet in a narrative as wide-ranging as this, it’s perhaps inevitable that some truly impactful figures fail to get their due ... In other sections of the book, Yergin reveals what is perhaps his understandable bias in favor of ever-greater energy-industry development, especially when it comes into conflict with environmental issues ... Yergin displays a strange aversion to writing about the role played by President Donald Trump ... The best part of the book is the last section, in which Yergin looks at current trends — such as climate-change policies, the moves toward electric cars and ride-sharing programs, and the rapid global spread of the coronavirus — and uses his well-honed insights to predict how these trends are likely to influence the global energy and political maps of the future.
