The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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...
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Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spa...
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How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You...
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The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murph...
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Oil 301: The World After Cheap Energy | Frankly 137
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Oil 201: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 136
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Oil 101: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135
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Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Medit...
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Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times: A World at the Edge of Change | Fra...
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Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Globa...
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Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133
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Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do...
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What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132
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The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human...
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Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times: Iran Effects, Local Preparedness, an...
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Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Co...
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Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Fai...
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A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129
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Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft...
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Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128
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How to Inoculate Against Misinformation: Breaking Down Misleading Arguments & Wh...
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Wide Boundary News 2/23/26: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz,...
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Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers | Frankly...
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The Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jas...
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Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times | Frankly 125
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The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial...
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Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks
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The Consumption Pyramid
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How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and E...
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A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Consideratio...
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Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase S...
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The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your...
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The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120
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Arms Race or the Human Race? Governance in the Age of AI, Nuclear Threats, and G...
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Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve | Frankly 119
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Why the West Can't Defend Itself: How Material Scarcity Is Reshaping Global Powe...
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The Things We Take for Granted | Frankly 118
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How We've 'Drugified' Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital...
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Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?
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End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116
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Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kel...
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Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Fra...
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe...
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Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spi...
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Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveri...
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11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113
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Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering...
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Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Per...
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The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
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