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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 to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.

Episodes

A Word I Can't Seem to Understand: Non-Duality and Our Living World | Frankly 144

29 May 2026

14m

Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek

27 May 2026

1h 41m

A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): Why Mindfulness Matters When the World Is Breaking Down

22 May 2026

35m

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 25

20 May 2026

1h 14m

A Guide to Staying Human (Part 2): Navigating Dread and Carrying the Weight of Tomorrow | Frankly 142

15 May 2026

32m

A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? with Art Berman

13 May 2026

1h 40m

Wide Boundary News: Sacrificing Wilderness, Oil Data Propaganda, and Feeding the Superorganism's Brain

08 May 2026

25m

Why Each American Lives Like a 40-Ton Whale: Power, Overshoot, and Climate with Tad Patzek

06 May 2026

1h 35m

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Modern industrial civilization functions as a "fossil amoeba," a complex system sustained by massive energy and material throughput that far exceeds biological necessity. Professor Tad Patzek argues that human society is "power blind," failing to distinguish between total energy and the dispatchable power required to m...

A Perspective From Lebanon: Who Will We Be When Things Get Hard? | Frankly 140

01 May 2026

16m

This War Changes Everything: Are We Ready for Energy Shockwaves From the Strait of Hormuz? with Rory Johnston

29 Apr 2026

1h 27m

How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 139

24 Apr 2026

32m

Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist

22 Apr 2026

2h 7m

How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138

17 Apr 2026

31m

The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 24

15 Apr 2026

1h 35m

Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Meditation with Sam Harris

08 Apr 2026

1h 40m

Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times: A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134

03 Apr 2026

19m

Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer

01 Apr 2026

1h 26m

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