...we're running into physical limits; the short term shock will be hard.
Those changes have been long in the making; the changes began with the rising costs of energy extraction. Rather than "Peak Oil", we are closer to a "Peak ERoEI" of sorts: for the same Energy Inputs to extract hydrocarbons, our Energy Returns have been steadily decreasing.
https://georgejnasr.wpcomstaging.com/2022/04/04/the-energy-cliff/
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
The struggle for Suwayda as the Stalingrad of the Arabs. It is about the future of the Levant & the economic independence of the Arabian peninsula, lest we see a return of Turkish supremacy. The Druze hold Stalingrad or the Arabs lose the Peninsula
