Materials

We Can Build a Post-Scarcity Energy World: But Only If We Change How We Build It

Energy superabundance is coming. The winners will be the nations and industries that master the art of moving metals, not just electrons.

25 min read

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

This Week’s Snapshot of Planetary Phase Shift Signals

4 min read

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

29 min read

Debating the transition: will materials undo clean energy?

I got into a debate about whether we have enough materials for the clean energy transition with someone who I fundamentally disagree with - and we managed to talk it through to create a shared understanding about our emerging post-carbon future

4 min read
AGI

AI and the Global Phase-Shift: How AI Will Really Change the World

AI represents the Fifth Great Information Disruption since human settlements first arose. It will be unstoppable and all-encompassing - and it could help us breakthrough to a new system premised on earth-centered collective intelligence, or spiral into breakdown and collapse.

21 min read