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The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.

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.

The push to #JustStopOil at #cop28 illustrates the ignorance of physical limits of some in #Climate negotiations. Designers build a system, mindful of the physical limits of our world. Non-Engineers often forgets reality; just the outcome matters https://youtu.be/WBkHTnloS0E

The key challenge of #cop28 is to face down the new form of #CarbonColonialism, which #JustStopOil will lead to, willingly or not.

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

Another risk of a #CircularEconomy; it becomes too simple, top-down, predictable, and monolithic. It will then struggle to store, transmit, interpret information, and to evolve. Unlike Life and Mother #Nature, it will struggle with progress

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.

The #Beirut Grain Silos illustrate the need to #DesignForFailure. Modern engineers try design for #IdiotProof their design. But the universe always comes up with a better idiot. The Engineers who built modern Lebanon did not worry about fools; rather than “fool-proofing” their #design, they built FOR #failure. Just like #FormDefinesFunction, a structure’s ultimate failure determines design.

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

Green Hydrogen is an illusion, we are already in a Hydrogen Economy

Can the UK deliver to its commitment to #zeroemissions in 2050? Think tanks "think" it's an opportunity to develop new tech. Reality says there's not enough time... Under current tech, Reality thinks this will tank the economy back to medieval times