The competing dynamics of systemic re-entrenchment and emergent transformation have rarely been more sharply illustrated than this week. In the United States, the House passed President Trump’s sweeping budget bill, a clear assertion of fossil-capital power. It slashes clean-energy tax incentives, boosts fossil-fuel subsidies, and locks in structural advantages for centralised, extractive industries (Reuters, 2025-07-03). This legislative rupture is not just a national redirection — it is a global signal of regime consolidation within a decaying paradigm.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/american-fossil-capitalism-doubles-down-on-its-own-doom-planetary-signal-brief-26-june-to-3-july-2025-2