Futures of the Sun, by Imre Szeman

Over the past 200 years, political power has become deeply entwined with fossil fuels. The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative. There are already competing stories, “each trying to be the first to make sense of what a politics anchored on renewable energy and climate action might look like.”

That’s what Imre Szeman’s short book Future of the...