A civilisational fulcrum is shifting beneath our feet. OPEC signalled its own unraveling. Simultaneously, Europe burned. And yet, amid the collapse, coherence begins to rise. Offshore wind. Battery recycling. Nature-backed finance. This is not a transition - it's a phase shift.
The world is shifting—irreversibly—from fossil-fuelled industrialism to planetary-scale regeneration. The question now is not whether the phase shift is real, but how quickly we learn to navigate it.
After decades exposing fossil fuel interests, I've realised it's not about dismantling the old. We must enable the new with finance, technology & system change. The West’s biggest carbon polluters are deflecting from this necessity, in ways that have carefully obscured what really derailed COP28.
The world's energy watchdog has called it - end of the oil age is imminent. But the world is deeply unprepared for what this means - and we're still underestimating the speed, scale and consequences of what's coming. This is the greatest disruption in human history. Here's how we get ready.
US oil production is about to peak, but the world is unprepared for the tremendous economic and political consequences. The only path through is energy and economic transformation.