The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity

In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.

The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy

The push to #JustStopOil at #cop28 illustrates the ignorance of physical limits of some in #Climate negotiations.

Designers build a system, mindful of the physical limits of our world. Non-Engineers often forgets reality; just the outcome matter

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

Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism

Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.