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The Coming End of Petropower - Planetary Signal Brief #1 – 25 June 2025

This Week’s Snapshot of Planetary Phase Shift Signals

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The War That Signals the Coming End of Petropower - Planetary Intelligence Bulletin #1

This week’s headline is a sobering call – our fossil-fueled global system is brittle. Accelerating the shift to renewables and diplomacy isn’t just idealism; it’s the practical path to reduce the war and chaos that threaten everyday security.

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Introducing the Planetary Intelligence Bulletin

We are no longer living through disconnected crises. We are participants—willing or not—in a planetary phase shift.

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Climate Paradox vs Planetary Phase Shift: Resetting Climate Action with Systems Thinking

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.

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The Delusion of “No Energy Transition”: And How Renewables Can End Endless Energy Extraction

In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, past and present, all over the world: and obscures how renewables can help end the extraction economy

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The Coming Dawn of a Global Solar Civilisation

We can build a new clean energy system based on distributed abundance and empathic intelligence that helps us solve some of our biggest challenges

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Why transformation of the global energy system is now unstoppable

We've passed a global energy transition tipping point making dominance of solar, wind and batteries inevitable and irreversible within decades. A whole new system is being born. But technology alone can't save us: we need a collective shift in mindset, values and governance.

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The Fossil Fuel Energy Cliff and the Great Oversimplification

Recent claims that renewables represent an inevitable energy descent are derived from a new form of 'energy blindness' that ignores the best EROI systems science.

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Energy transformation won’t be derailed by lack of raw materials

A 1,000 page report influencing IMF, UN and EU policymakers claims we don't have enough materials to support a global shift to clean energy. But the report is deeply flawed, based on indefensible unscientific assumptions, and totally ignores key scientific findings.

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Solar can already generate more energy than oil, says major scientific review

And is twice as powerful than previously thought

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed