The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.
Episodes
Showing 20 of 28- Wide Boundary News: Sacrificing Wilderness, Oil Data Propaganda, and Feeding the Superorganism's Brain5/8/202625 min
- Why Each American Lives Like a 40-Ton Whale: Power, Overshoot, and Climate with Tad Patzek5/6/20261 hr 36 min
- A Perspective From Lebanon: Who Will We Be When Things Get Hard? | Frankly 1405/1/202616 min
- This War Changes Everything: Are We Ready for Energy Shockwaves From the Strait of Hormuz? with Rory Johnston4/29/20261 hr 27 min
- How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 1394/24/202633 min
- Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist4/22/20262 hr 8 min
- How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 1384/17/202632 min
- The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 244/15/20261 hr 36 min
- Oil 301: The World After Cheap Energy | Frankly 1374/11/202616 min
- Oil 201: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 1364/10/202614 min
- Oil 101: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 1354/9/202610 min
- Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Meditation with Sam Harris4/8/20261 hr 41 min
- Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times: A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 1344/3/202620 min
- Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer4/1/20261 hr 27 min
- Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 1333/27/202612 min
- Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris3/25/20261 hr 51 min
- What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 1323/20/202653 min
- The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 233/18/20261 hr 19 min
- Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times: Iran Effects, Local Preparedness, and End of Empire?3/13/202614 min
- Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Could Change Our Global Crises with Christine Webb3/11/20261 hr 18 min