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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

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Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson

12 Nov 2025
1h 21m
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Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20

05 Nov 2025
1h 53m
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The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112

31 Oct 2025
22m
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Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon

29 Oct 2025
1h 46m
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The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say

24 Oct 2025
26m
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Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell

22 Oct 2025
1h 27m
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What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism

17 Oct 2025
17m
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Will Coral Reefs Be Gone by 2050? How Bleaching, Acidification, and Ocean Heating are Killing Coral Reefs with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

15 Oct 2025
1h 30m
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Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If Something Goes Wrong with Meredith Angwin

08 Oct 2025
1h 24m
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Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries

03 Oct 2025
21m
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Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman

01 Oct 2025
1h 15m
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The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think

26 Sep 2025
22m
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The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp

24 Sep 2025
2h 15m
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In this episode of The Great Simplification, host Nate Hagens interviews Luke Kemp, an existential risk and collapse researcher, about his new book, "Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse." Kemp introduces the concept of "Goliaths" as dominance hierarchies that inevitably collapse due to their in...

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Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19

17 Sep 2025
1h 24m
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What I Learned This Week: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107

12 Sep 2025
16m
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Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump with Anastassia Makarieva

10 Sep 2025
2h 1m
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10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106

05 Sep 2025
15m
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How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18

03 Sep 2025
1h 14m
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Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith

27 Aug 2025
1h 20m
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Key Blindspots of the “Walrus” Movement | Frankly 105

22 Aug 2025
38m
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