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 42- How to Play 5D Chess: It's Not What You Think | Frankly 1476/19/202618 min
- No More Dystopian Stories: How to See a Future Worth Living In with Rob Hopkins6/17/20261 hr 35 min
- Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times: Are You Okay With Nuclear Warfare? | Frankly 1466/16/202624 min
- The U.S. Can't Back Down: The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every6/12/20261 hr 25 min
- Why 'Community' Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager with Nora Bateson, Jonathan Goldsmith & Lucas Jackson | RR 266/10/20261 hr 34 min
- How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World | Frankly 1456/5/202624 min
- Back to the Land: Why Restoring Earth's Capacity Will Take All of Us with Brett KenCairn6/3/20261 hr 34 min
- Casting Call for a Future Frankly6/1/20265 min
- A Word I Can't Seem to Understand: Non-Duality and Our Living World | Frankly 1445/29/202614 min
- Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek5/27/20261 hr 41 min
- A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): Why Mindfulness Matters When the World Is Breaking Down5/22/202635 min
- Learning in a Way that Actually Matters: Why Standardized Testing Contributed to the Metacrisis – and How to Fix It with Theo Dawson & Zak Stein | RR 255/20/20261 hr 14 min
- A Guide to Staying Human (Part 2): Navigating Dread and Carrying the Weight of Tomorrow | Frankly 1425/15/202632 min
- A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? with Art Berman5/13/20261 hr 41 min
- 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