This week, the world’s largest oil producers flinched. OPEC+ announced it would unwind 550,000 barrels per day of supply cuts by September—a move framed as market confidence, but in truth a sign of deepening fragility. As fossil demand plateaus and clean energy gains exponential ground, the cartel’s leverage is visibly eroding. Paired with heatwave-induced energy infrastructure failures across Europe and the EU’s bold regulatory moves against Big Tech, the signals point clearly: the old energy, information, and governance orders are losing 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-signals-brief-3