Human civilisation is experiencing a Great Metamorphosis in which our energy, politics, economics, culture, values and worldviews are being completely rewritten.| Age of Transformation
Collapse is not the end - it's the beginning. The fear and uncertainty of this time signals the obsolescence of old ways of being. As we step into the unknown, truly new ways of being are emerging. Our challenge is to seize on and amplify these opportunities.| Age of Transformation
We've passed a global energy transition tipping point making dominance of solar, wind and batteries inevitable and irreversible within decades. A whole new system is being born. But technology alone can't save us: we need a collective shift in mindset, values and governance.| Age of Transformation
Historian Christopher Clark in Foreign Policy sees the collapse of modernity. What’s really ending is industrial civilisation’s life-cycle. What comes next depends on whether we embrace collapse or renewal.| Age of Transformation
From tariff-driven inflation to the largest solar-plus-storage build in history, this fortnight’s signals reveal a fractured global order - and the rapid scaling of systems built to replace it.| Age of Transformation
Energy superabundance is coming. The winners will be the nations and industries that master the art of moving metals, not just electrons.| Age of Transformation
💡Downloadable PDF available exclusively for premium members below! This report is produced by Age of Transformation, an independent macro foresight and systems intelligence platform tracking the deep drivers of global disruption and civilisational change. Grounded in the Planetary Phase Shift framework, this analysis offers institutional investors, asset allocators, and policy| Age of Transformation
My work has accurately predicted 20 major events over the last 20 years. How? Whole systems intelligence| Age of Transformation
U.S. shale is plateauing - and neither Trump, nor the global economy, are ready. As fossil fuel energy growth stalls, the foundations of trade and dollar dominance begin to crack. The consequences will be profound.| Age of Transformation
China asserts global AI norms. Trump reignites trade wars. Infrastructure falters and ecosystems burn - while Indigenous nations, farmers, and communities begin restoring the Earth.| Age of Transformation
A Strategic Foresight Report for Investors in an Emerging Climate Risk Regime – AoT Planetary Intelligence Bulletin| Age of Transformation
Our planet’s vital oceanic circulation systems are undergoing dramatic and unprecedented transformations, signaling a potential shift towards a new, more dangerous climate state. This exclusive Strategic Risk Assessment goes deep into the profound implications.| Age of Transformation
The AMOC may collapse by mid-century—and we may be seeing the first signs now. What happens next could reshape our civilisation.| Age of Transformation
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.| Age of Transformation
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.| Age of Transformation
The competing dynamics of systemic re-entrenchment and emergent transformation have rarely been more sharply illustrated than this week.| Age of Transformation
The global system is currently experiencing a profound and accelerating planetary phase shift, a period defined not merely by change, but by a fundamental bifurcation.| Age of Transformation
Exclusive systems intelligence and macro signals for those investing, governing, or building at the edge of global transformation| Age of Transformation
This Week’s Snapshot of Planetary Phase Shift Signals| Age of Transformation
This week’s headline is a sobering call – our fossil-fueled global system is brittle. Accelerating the shift to renewables and diplomacy isn’t just idealism; it’s the practical path to reduce the war and chaos that threaten everyday security.| Age of Transformation
We are no longer living through disconnected crises. We are participants—willing or not—in a planetary phase shift.| Age of Transformation
The circular-economy market is not a slow-burn niche; it is riding the same mutually reinforcing disruption waves dismantling the industrial system. When viewed as one coupled system, it's a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity over the next decade| Age of Transformation
Integrating the 'Crisis of Civilisation', collapse dynamics, and global transition theory to understand how we can make the next great leap in human evolution| Age of Transformation
In Planet: Critical, Rachel Donald defends the thesis of 'no energy transition', saying my data 'is wonky'. But her approach makes major data errors, and obfuscates the potential for radical technological and economic transformation.| Age of Transformation
Tony Blair has declared that phasing out fossil fuels is "doomed to fail". But the hard data shows that what's really doomed is trying to keep fossil capitalism alive through carbon capture, AI and nuclear.| Age of Transformation
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.| Age of Transformation
We can build a new clean energy system based on distributed abundance and empathic intelligence that helps us solve some of our biggest challenges| Age of Transformation
In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, past and present, all over the world: and obscures how renewables can help end the extraction economy| Age of Transformation
The planetary phase shift framework helps us to see the new era of Trump's trade wars as part of the last stages in the life-cycle of our civilisation - and the precursor to a rapid new geopolitical and economic reordering of the international system.| Age of Transformation
We are facing the end of 'the West'. Some of our best science shows the US empire is following the collapse-path of the USSR - but this is also the precursor to the emergence of a new life-cycle for civilisation.| Age of Transformation
The era of American energy dominance is coming to an end. And Trumpocracy 2.0's efforts to revive it through imperial hubris will accelerate the decline - because alternative facts can't trump biophysical reality.| Age of Transformation
Elon Musk is launching an authoritarian coup within the 2nd Trump presidency. Seen through planetary phase shift theory, this is a backslide into collapse. The battle lines are drawn. All humanity holds dear is at stake. We fight back by recognising our true power.| Age of Transformation
We are on the brink of the biggest and most momentous transformation in history as exponential ecological, energy and economic crises converge with exponential technology disruptions.| Age of Transformation
Superabundance is within reach. But ironically, the precondition to getting it is by giving it up. It sounds paradoxical, but this is actually the key to the next great leap in human evolution. I set this out with a rigorous scientific framework in my new paper on the Planetary Phase Shift.| Age of Transformation
A systems lens suggests a quarter of GDP could evaporate on a pathway to violent civil unrest, concentration camps, and genocidal violence that would be a free gift to Putin| Age of Transformation
We are all feeling it. Grief, despair, anxiety, chaos. This essay, which distils the planetary phase shift framework, gives you the tools to see through the chaos to recognise emerging possibilities of a new system that could enable superabundance beyond our wildest imaginations.| Age of Transformation
Unfolding conflict across Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran is not just a regional breakdown, but a global systemic rupture in the context of the planetary phase shift as industrial civilisation moves through the last stages of its life-cycle.| Age of Transformation
When we look at the rise of the global far-right through a systems lens, we can recognise that it as a symptom of crisis and collapse - as well as the potential for renewal. Today, humanity stands at a political inflection point in which the only viable path forward involves total transformation.| Age of Transformation
Drawing on my research on genocidal colonial systems, I explore how the original concept of genocide invented by Polish Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin suggests that Hamas and Israel are both complicit in the co-production of genocidal violence.| Age of Transformation
2024 - the opportunity for a new beginning. What has this newsletter achieved so far, and where do we go next on the journey toward our post-carbon future?| Age of Transformation
The post-oil genie's out of the bottle. It ain't ever going back. Get ready for the new world that's emerging.| Age of Transformation
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.| Age of Transformation
Published in association with Byline Times The revelation that the COP28 president told former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson that he believed there is “no science” to justify a total phase out of fossil fuels to stay within 1.5C has stoked anger and shock around the world. But| Age of Transformation
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.| Age of Transformation
I have to apologise for the radio silence over the last few weeks - and to thank you for your patience. Things have not been quiet for no reason, however. I've been, well, swamped with all sorts of activity. I'm currently working on some major real-world projects to accelerate the| Age of Transformation
A 1,000 page report influencing IMF, UN and EU policymakers claims we don't have enough materials to support a global shift to clean energy. But the report is deeply flawed, based on indefensible unscientific assumptions, and totally ignores key scientific findings.| Age of Transformation
