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The Iran-Hormuz Crisis Proves the Old Answers Are Already Dead

The Iran-Hormuz Crisis Proves the Old Answers Are Already Dead

The instinct, when an energy system breaks, is to produce more of the fuel. Drill more. Ship more. Import more. Licence more acreage. Build more plants. Subsidise more supply. It is an instinct honed over a century - when the instinct worked.

May 22, 2026

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Nafeez Ahmed, +1

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Britain's Rightwing Want to Drill for Nothing in the North Sea

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel through which around a fifth of the world's oil flows, was closed for eleven weeks at the start of the year and despite marginal re-opening under an Iran-administered toll regime, remains effectively closed.

Nafeez Ahmed, +1 • May 22, 2026


Hormuz Is Decapitating the Oil Age

As I write this, more than two thousand ships and twenty thousand mariners remain stranded across the Persian Gulf.

Nafeez Ahmed, +1 • May 1, 2026


The Coming Collapse of Fascism

The Trump administration is a terminal regime. Its structural profile - high ideological intensity, significant overreach, and a hostile international environment - matches the fastest-dying regimes in the historical record of fascism, and no regime with comparable variables has survived a decade.

Nafeez Ahmed • APR 25, 2026


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ABOUT NAFEEZ

Across more than two decades, Nafeez has developed a distinctive applied systems framework that integrates complexity science, political economy, ecology, and futures thinking to illuminate how global crises are interconnected, why the prevailing system is breaking down, and what viable pathways of transformation might look like. His work throws light on the true scale of the planetary crisis, the inevitability of systemic change, and what transformation inside and out could entail. Nafeez's anticipatory analysis has repeatedly identified major inflection points ahead of mainstream recognition, spanning financial instability, geopolitical conflict, ecological stress, and the structural decline of fossil-fuelled systems alongside the rise of clean energy technologies.

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