The circular-economy market is not a slow-burn niche; it is riding the same mutually reinforcing disruption waves dismantling the industrial system. When viewed as one coupled system, it's a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity over the next decade
In Planet: Critical, Rachel Donald defends the thesis of 'no energy transition', saying my data 'is wonky'. But her approach makes major data errors, and obfuscates the potential for radical technological and economic transformation.
Tony Blair has declared that phasing out fossil fuels is "doomed to fail". But the hard data shows that what's really doomed is trying to keep fossil capitalism alive through carbon capture, AI and nuclear.
Superabundance is within reach. But ironically, the precondition to getting it is by giving it up. It sounds paradoxical, but this is actually the key to the next great leap in human evolution. I set this out with a rigorous scientific framework in my new paper on the Planetary Phase Shift.
Collapse is not the end - it's the beginning. The fear and uncertainty of this time signals the obsolescence of old ways of being. As we step into the unknown, truly new ways of being are emerging. Our challenge is to seize on and amplify these opportunities.
Fear that AI is an existential threat to humanity is going viral. But there's little evidence that God-like AI superintelligence is possible. The real threat comes from the abuse of AI to manipulate information - which could derail civilisation at a crucial turning point in history.
