Meanwhile in the other Southern corner of Europe, the far right ascends to second place and the entire left is now less than 30% of MP count.

I do. Not sure about the other 40m

I'm afraid some in the nuclear industry and coal holdouts in Portugal and Spain would take issue with the third sentence in your post. For brevity, I will post it here -

I know of aat least one person that could do it, if he's willing. Can I put him in contact with you?

Yes, absolutely. Chile in particular has been quite a success of late

Pod envy most likely, but have you ever considered a pod on Portugal? Decarbonising as fast if not faster than Finland, not quite as wealthy, and w/o overpriced nuclear in. the mix

Well, some people decided to do just that but found it so BORING all they could think of doing was use it to ship cars across a mile of desert somewhere. That larger dream of yours will never fly.

His exceptional intelligence if it indeed exists is now used towards pure evil deeds. I'm sure some would claim that Hitler was exceptionally intelligent. That's not the point.

Do we need to choose? I prefer not: being fairly optimistic on the technological front (although very skeptical myself of some solutions, including DAC, BECCS, CCS), but not putting all of my eggs onto tech, rather edging that bet with a fair dollop of societal change - esp in food system change

These are not done by decision makers. Not at Shell, not anywhere else. It's the same whether you're at Shell or at OECD. These are decision support systems; they inform, do not replace decisions. Whether decision makers consider them is not up to the modellers in their internal teams.

These reports are not commissioned. Oil companies have by their very nature the need to do long term scenario planning. These are scenarios, not forecasts and are therefore not an expression of Shell's "belief", rather what they conceive can happen. That said, quite progressive on the transition.

Only problem is that the geothermal resource is not widely available as wind and solar. Better geothermal technology may lead to exploring submarginal resources soon though.