Current situation
The solar eclipse in the USA, on April 8, 2024 coincided with a peak in world oil prices.
World crude oil production (after its peak in 2018) peaked post-covid in 2023 ("Seneca curve" of world crude oil production).
Oil prices are subject to affordability limits -- as costs of extracting, transporting & refining oil tend to increase with depletion, if the prices paid don't cover the costs of keeping up the oil supply, the rates of oil extraction tend to decline.
No power grid system yet gets even nearly half of its energy from such a wind and/or solar power; nor has artificial photosynthesis ever been commercialized -- ideas of the world "going green", without fossil fuels, remain fantastic.
The USA, to the present, has shown a clear pattern of correlation with German imperialism before 1945 (Historical Connections and Predictions).
The path of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 intersected with the path of the 2017 eclipse near Carbondale, Illinois, which has become an abortion center (Carbondale Il abortion).
The path of the 2024 eclipse included several places named Nineveh (the name of the city destroyed in 612 BC).
"Fossil fuels" are fundamentally important in the functioning of the system which supports the complex world situation -- they are necessary in the construction of hydroelectric & nuclear power, electrical "power grids", & such as wind or solar power generation.
With fossil fuels permanently in decline, much will go with it, including food production, & transportation, manufacturing, & services.
World crude oil prices are subject to affordability limits, as refiners don't pay more for the crude oil than they hope to recover profitably from the sale of products made from it; and, those prices have been too low to keep up with the rising cost of replacing depleted oil wells.
No electrical "power grid" in the world gets even nearly half of its energy from intermittent renewable energy, such as wind or solar power.
Even such as hydroelectric or nuclear power are heavily dependent on fossil fuels for their construction & operation.
Smelting of steel is highly dependent on coke coal, or electric-arc furnaces -- using such as
charcoal for it isn't feasible.
"Solar fuels" have not produced useful results.
The US has used its "reserve currency" status to "print money" to finance itself, but this situation may "collapse", as that reserve currency status is lost.