FRACKING, HORIZONTAL DRILLING, AND MORE: The Energy Revolution Approaches. “The geopolitical consequences of these changes will upend many conventional assumptions — about US decline, the role of energy conflict in 21st century politics and several others. . . . The new economics and geopolitics of energy are real; they are changing the ground under our feet. Environmentalists are not the only people who will have to adjust to a future that doesn’t match our forecasts.”