Behind the Buzz

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

How fragile are we today? Back in 536, we managed to limp across the worst year to be alive. So much so, that we now memory-holed it.

#sustainability comes from #energy. We humans would do well to learn from #Nature; long before we came long, #Earth had already “tested” the many resources that we would later unlock.

Earth has a second, deeper water cycle. Made up of water under very high pressure. The second, deeper cycle shapes the crust; it moves continents and powers volcanoes.

The best laid plans cannot trump the reality of Energy. And in this reality, #oilandgas reign supreme, above king #coal, and far above the rest. It is a lesson we'd be well served to remember today.

In the Middle East #PeaceProcess, the Israeli-Syrian track may lead to a #RenewableEnergy "Peace Park"... What does that really mean?

The #GazaWar is one step of the larger #MiddleEastern war. As long as there is war between #Israelis and #Palestinians, there will be #war in the #MiddleEast. If there is #peace in the Middle East, it will be a #water peace; a trade of #LandForPeace

Is the Gaza War of 2023 a Resource War?

Innovation happens at the edges. It is where different ideas interact, and innovative solutions evolve. Centralize decision-making, you ger rid of the edge, you get rid of innovation. Welcome to stagnation

We better upgrade our farming game. The next #GreenRevolution is already underway, and it ain't #Agribusiness. It's #Permaculture

The #FrenchRiots of July 2023 are not the first; the trouble is more systemic. The city is no longer #sustainable; by evolving into a #megacity, it got rid of what made it "happen" in the first place.

Trade may be the key factor of #sustainability. When it was possible, #trade “buffered” the impact of local resource shortages, and allowed us to continue innovating.

A #WaterWar is not in the future; most water wars have already been done, in the past. The last was the #SixDayWar of June 1967, an accidental #WaterWar

The #CircularEconomy: Is it an achievable goal? Yes... and No. It really depends of what you mean by "circular"; Mother #Nature itself does not mean the strictest definition

Can #Climate change human #history? No. But it can help the right will along, as "history is made from the meeting of a will and an event"

A short primer on the #ResourceCurse, shared May 25 on LOGYTalks' platform. Worth expanding into another video, on how the #GulfCountries appear to avoid the curse, and expand their economies sustainably.

Can the West #Decouple from #China ? The West has forgotten so much, and lost so much ground can it relearn and catch up? The story of #Fogbank is a cautionary tale.

To make #GreenHydrogen work, our #hydrogen #economy needs new storage solutions...

In #policy, as in medicine: nothing is free from side-effects. This happens in #ClimateChange policies, mostly due to the impact of Response Measures: direct, indirect, and deferred.

Mess with the #WaterCycl;e at our own peril, and invite the #BlackSwan into human affairs

The #Resource curse is a feature of our economic systems, not a bug. So it does not have to be about oil.

New technologies, new civilization. new cities; we need new urban structures, we need them from the bottom up

The 1918-1920 race for #Azerbaijan's #oil may prefigure 2023-2025. An #EnergyCrisis turns friends into enemies, peacemakers into warriors. The adventures of Dunsterforce and Bicherakov Cossak's may illustrate this

The Chinese Spy Balloon tale is one of a world of LARPers, where no one knows what the Fu-Go they're doing.