Greetings. I've been traveling a lot, so I have not had time to record any of these Franklies.

And now I must because it's late Wednesday and I've just learned of some things and had some ideas.

So this is going to come out Friday and then I'm traveling again. I'll be in New York City for Climate Week next week.

We'll see some of you there. I am also an exculpatory

clause recording this under the influence of zizol, which is anahistamine because I have terrible

ragweed allergies. There was a black swan that potentially happened in the last couple days

with respect to the

four horsemen of the 2020s, which I often talk about. And this is the Israeli use of pagers

in the war against Hezbollah in the Middle East. I'm going to couch that in a broader overview of seven things that are very important to our lives

that are depleting or disappearing or in recede mode.

And that's going to be the topic of today is brief, frankly, the first of many coming in coming

months.

I have like a list of 37 more that I somehow need to find a time to record.

Okay.

So very quickly, viewers of this program know that I don't look at the future by extrapolating the current

situation forward in time because we can look two or three steps ahead and infer some of the

challenges, some of the roadblocks, some of the dead ends that we face. So here are seven things

that are declining. So here are seven things that are declining, maybe out of our site, but they're

declining nonetheless, and they're going to have big implications for our future. The first one,

of course, is oil. When we drill an oil field, we get a lot of production out and then a big tail that lasts sometimes for decades.

We've drilled, you know, so many oil wells around the world.

We've drilled more in the United States than the rest of the world combined.

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