The result is the second industrial revolution has created a top-down, centralized energy regime and economic structure unparalleled in history. and today, at the end of this second industrial revolution 3 of the 5 largest companies in the world are global energy companies and underneath these companies are the large banks that finance this second industrial revolution energy infrastructure and underneath the banks are 500 or so global companies who feed off the oil spigot from telecommunications to transport. and when we put this all together it's shocking to realize that these 500 companies make up a third of the GDP of the entire world.