Greetings. The world is full of chaos. We have tariffs and AI and Russia, NATO, Ukraine, Europe,

U.S. war, and interest rates and gold and Bitcoin volatility and poverty and inequality and

polar vortex and climate and biodiversity loss and polarization.

And we get so much information, so much stimulation, so much cultural smorgasbord pulling us away from what an

individual human stands for.

I have a lot to say about many of those things.

My work the last 20 years is to describe using science

the underpinning biophysical macroeconomic framework of the human species, of the human

predicament. But increasingly, I feel less about explaining and describing and more about feeling.

I, in I increasingly am aware that lots of people, when they hear about our predicament, ecological overshoot, where we are mining fossil energy and minerals millions of times faster than this earth sequestered them

and in an eye blink are drawing this down and as I've said in our movie animation turning billions of barrels of

ancient sunlight into microliters of dopamine.

There's a lot of threads that are coalescing for me. One is that the way we're acting today is downwardly caused by the collective emergence of this power dynamic.

Combine humans with a lot of energy surplus and the default path is what's happening now.

That doesn't mean that's who humans are.

It means it's who our social comparing primate nature is out of context of our small bands on the

savannah of 100, 150 people thrust into this world with massive material surplus and

digital claims on top of that and now AI turbocharging the whole thing.

I increasingly see that the energy transition is not about what kind of energy or what kind of

battery or what kind of supply chains or systems.

It's about how we use energy,

how we relate to each other,

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