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It was a long-shot bet on liquid natural gas, but it paid off handsomely \u2014 and turned the United States into a leading fossil-fuel exporter.\n\nThe journalist Jake Bittle delves into the storied career of Charif Souki, the Lebanese American entrepreneur whose aptitude for risk changed the course of the American energy business.\n\nThe article outlines how Mr. Souki rose from being a Los Angeles restaurant owner to becoming the co-founder and chief executive of Cheniere Energy, an oil and gas company that specialized in liquefied natural gas, and provides an insight into his thought process: \u201cAs Souki sees it,\u201d Mr. Bittle writes, \u201cthe need to provide the world with energy in the short term outweighs the long-term demand of acting on carbon emissions.\u201d\n\nIn a time of acute climate anxiety, Mr. Souki\u2019s rationale could strike some as outdated, even brazen. The world may be facing energy and climate crises, Mr. Souki told The New York Times, \u201cbut one is going to happen this month, and the other one is going to happen in 40 years.\u201d\n\n\u201cIf you tell somebody, \u2018You are going to run out of electricity this month,\u2019 and then you talk to the same person about what\u2019s going to happen in 40 years,\u201d he said, \u201cthey will tell you, \u2018What do I care about 40 years from now?\u2019\u201d