Scientist Analyzes 3000 Years Of Data (Video - 1h22mn)

    The subject of this video is as interesting as the author is not. Fortunately, Just the PowerPoint Presentation is enough to follow the progression of the argumentation and the talk is extremely well documented under the video with structure and links which provide the necessary support to understand the reasoning.  

    In a precedent article, we saw how Peter Zeihan was integrating resources and population in his economic analysis: 

The World You Grew Up In Is About to Change Forever by Peter Zeihan

    Here, Simon Michaux is adding the time dimension to the discussion with a fascinating exploration of what happened before. 

    So what exactly happened before? 

    Even without reading Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, most people are well aware of the decline of Rome and the onslaught of the German "Barbarians" 1,500 years ago. But adding the similar crash of the Bronze Age period, 1,500 years before that, adds context to how exactly civilizations fall by exhausting the resources they are built upon. Especially as narrated by the Egyptians with their Empire at the time of Ramses III submerged by the mysterious "Sea People".  

   Simon Michaux believes the warning for us is ominous and explains in detail how he believes, lacking energy, we may lose the ability to manufacture our most advanced products with microchips at the very top of the list. 

Scientist Analyzes 3000 Years Of Data: The Elite Are Preparing For Something HUGE | Simon Michaux

CHAPTERS of the discussion:

00:00 – Introduction: Semiconductors as Modern Charcoal

00:58 – The Concept of Grand Transitions

02:44 – High-Level Policy Meetings & Global Fragility

06:04 – Lessons from Past Civilizations (1177 BC Collapse)

17:00 – A Forest Journey: Wood as the Original Oil

21:23– Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels

22:56 – The 60-Year Evolution of the Automobile & Petroleum

25:50 – Natural Gas: From Waste Product to National Strategy

27:28 – The Rise of Petrochemicals & Synthetic Materials

29:02 – Manufacturing Complexity: From Metal Lathes to CNC

32:05 – Semiconductors: The Pinnacle of Industrial Complexity

35:18 – Industrial Agriculture & The Green Revolution

37:52 – Mining & The Increasing Energy Cost of Metal

41:42 – The Ecological Reality & Planetary Carrying Capacity

42:54 – Money, Banking, & The Shift to Virtual Currency

47:14– The Current Grand Transition Summary

53:50 – The Factor of Time: Why Transitions Take Decades

55:21 – Updated Models: Price Volatility & Resource Declines

59:51 – Preparing for Inevitable Systemic Shifts

01:03:30 – Geopolitics, Bioweapons, & Strategic Conflicts

01:07:41 – Can AI Solve Resource Scarcity?

01:14:45 – Surveillance Grids vs. Resource Management

01:21:09 – Where to Find Simon Michaux’s Work