A civilisational fulcrum is shifting beneath our feet. This week, the world’s oil cartel—long the backbone of industrial modernity—signalled its own unraveling. OPEC+ moved to restore supply cuts not from a position of strength, but from an unspoken recognition: the fossil fuel age is entering terminal decline. The cartel’s grip on global energy no longer rests on scarcity, but on an increasingly fragile fiction of control.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/the-worlds-oil-cartel-blinks-first-in-the-great-energy-transition-planetary-intelligence-bulletin-3