The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

By Nate Hagens

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Episodes: 254


 Nov 16, 2022

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here.

Episode Date
Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81
Dec 20, 2024
The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities with Christian Sawyer
Dec 18, 2024
"Thank You for Ruining My Life" | Frankly 80
Dec 13, 2024
The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash with Jeremy Grantham
Dec 11, 2024
Shutting Off The Plastic Tap: A Global Treaty To Regulate Petrochemical Pollution? with Jane Muncke
Dec 08, 2024
The Biggest Takeaways from the Logic of the Superorganism
Dec 06, 2024
Existential Risks: The Biggest Threats to Life as We Know It with Luke Kemp
Dec 04, 2024
A Brief Clarification on Human Behavior | Frankly 78
Nov 29, 2024
Energy Crises & Global Power Shifts: The Struggle for Stability in Israel, Iran, and Beyond | Helen Thompson
Nov 27, 2024
Future Council: How Children are Responding to our Planetary Crises with Damon Gameau and The Future Council
Nov 24, 2024
7 Philosophies on the Future | Frankly 77
Nov 22, 2024
Fires in the Rainforest: The Impossible Economics of a Disappearing Amazon | André Guimarães
Nov 20, 2024
The Battles of Our Time | Frankly 76
Nov 15, 2024
Carbon Sink to Carbon Source? How the Amazon Rainforest Could Become a Self-Drying Savanna | Carlos Nobre | TGS 150
Nov 13, 2024
Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking with John Fullerton
Nov 06, 2024
Somebody's Gonna Win | Frankly 75
Nov 01, 2024
Preserving Democracy: A Call for Civility with Richard Gephardt
Oct 30, 2024
The Global Stakes of the U.S. Election: Debt, The Dollar, and Military Power | Reality Roundtable #12
Oct 27, 2024
The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System with Indy Johar
Oct 23, 2024
Ecological Awakening: A Path Toward Holistic Adulthood with Bill Plotkin
Oct 16, 2024
Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth’s Critical Systems with Kari Stoever
Oct 13, 2024
The Lament of the Bigfoot | Frankly 74
Oct 11, 2024
Inner Development Goals: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm
Oct 09, 2024
Tales from the Carbon Pulse | Reality Roundtable 11
Oct 06, 2024
The Superorganism and the Self | Frankly 73
Oct 04, 2024
Rooted in Connection: Exploring the Hidden Ties in Earth's Forests with Suzanne Simard
Oct 02, 2024
What if Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72
Sep 27, 2024
History for Tomorrow: Uncovering Future Possibilities from Humanity’s Past with Roman Krznaric
Sep 25, 2024
Weakest Links: Depletion, Supply Chains, and Trust | Frankly 71
Sep 20, 2024
Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions with Stefan Rahmstorf
Sep 18, 2024
U.S. Full Spectrum Dominance: Nuclear Risks and The End of Empire with Jeffrey Sachs
Sep 11, 2024
Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health with Daniel Christian Wahl
Sep 04, 2024
The Physics of Connection: Understanding Relationships and Ecology with Fritjof Capra
Aug 28, 2024
The Art of Movement Building: Personal Liberation for Public Change with Mamphela Ramphele
Aug 21, 2024
Ask Me Anything - Your Questions About TGS Answered | Frankly 70
Aug 16, 2024
The Population Problem: Human Impact, Extinctions, and the Biodiversity Crisis with Corey Bradshaw
Aug 14, 2024
Goldilocks Technology - A Preliminary Checklist | Frankly 69
Aug 09, 2024
Biomimicry: Applying Nature’s Wisdom to Human Problems with Janine Benyus
Aug 07, 2024
Overshoot and Its 7 Fundamental Drivers | Frankly 68
Aug 02, 2024
Planetary Boundaries: Exceeding Earth's Safe Limits with Johan Rockström
Jul 31, 2024
The Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10
Jul 28, 2024
The Solutions that can be Named are not the Solutions | Frankly #67
Jul 26, 2024
Indigenous Wisdom: Resilience, Adaptation, and Seeing Nature as Ourselves with Casey Camp-Horinek
Jul 24, 2024
The Reality Party | Frankly #66
Jul 19, 2024
Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger
Jul 17, 2024
And Then What?: Using Wide-Boundary Lenses | Frankly 65
Jul 12, 2024
Eat, Poop, Die: Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman
Jul 10, 2024
Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable with Krista Tippett
Jul 03, 2024
The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future | Frankly 64
Jun 28, 2024
The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures with Jonathan Rowson
Jun 26, 2024
Sound Thinking: Using Music, Resonance, and Harmonics for Human Wellbeing with Alexandre Tannous
Jun 19, 2024
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway
Jun 12, 2024
The Next Generation's Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable #9
Jun 09, 2024
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment”
Jun 05, 2024
Nuclear Conflict: 7 Key Questions for Sustainable Futures | Frankly #63
May 31, 2024
Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"
May 29, 2024
Levke Caesar: "Oceanic Slowdown: Decoding the AMOC"
May 22, 2024
Special Request & Community Announcement
May 17, 2024
Chris Keefer: "Empowering the Future: from Nuclear to Podcasting"
May 15, 2024
The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable 8
May 12, 2024
Zak Stein: "Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis”
May 08, 2024
Pella Thiel: "Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”
May 01, 2024
7 Thought Experiments for Earth Day | Frankly #62
Apr 26, 2024
Tom Chi: "Net Positive for the Planet – from Beavers to Bionics”
Apr 24, 2024
The Strait of Hormuz and ‘the Spice’ | Frankly #61
Apr 19, 2024
Luther Krueger: "Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview"
Apr 17, 2024
The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About | Frankly #60
Apr 12, 2024
Michael Every: "The Many -Isms of the Metacrisis”
Apr 10, 2024
7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism | Frankly #59
Apr 04, 2024
Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology”
Apr 03, 2024
The Fellowship of the Ring - ‘Bend Not Break' Version | Frankly 58
Mar 29, 2024
Riane Eisler: "Domination and Partnership in Society"
Mar 27, 2024
Information Bifurcation | Frankly #57
Mar 22, 2024
Patrick Knodel: "Question Everything - Towards Cooperation & Change”
Mar 20, 2024
Chuck Watson: "NATO in Ukraine: from Proxy to Participants”
Mar 15, 2024
Lyn Alden: "The Myth of Frictionless Finance"
Mar 13, 2024
Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw | Frankly #56
Mar 08, 2024
Samantha Sweetwater: "Life at the Center”
Mar 06, 2024
7 Key Interventions for the Future | Frankly #55
Mar 01, 2024
Sandra Faber: "The Universe and Our Place in It”
Feb 28, 2024
John Robb: "Networked Tribalism, AI, and Asteroids"
Feb 21, 2024
Reflections From India | Frankly #54
Feb 16, 2024
Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics”
Feb 14, 2024
Steve Keen: "On the Origins of Energy Blindness”
Feb 07, 2024
Mario Giampietro: "Models with Meaning - Changing Social Practices”
Jan 31, 2024
Alexa Firmenich: "Biodiversity, Beauty, and Being”
Jan 24, 2024
The Haves & The Have-Nots | Frankly #53
Jan 19, 2024
Leon Simons: "Aerosol Demasking & Global Heating”
Jan 17, 2024
Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging”
Jan 10, 2024
The Behavioral Stack | Frankly #52
Jan 05, 2024
Peter Brannen: "Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today”
Jan 03, 2024
Bill McKibben: "Climate, Movements, and Power”
Dec 20, 2023
Systemic Themes for 2024 | Frankly #51
Dec 18, 2023
Arthur Berman: "Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound”
Dec 13, 2023
Stephanie Hoopes, Peter Kilde, Marc Perry, Dalitso Sulamoyo: “Poverty Blind” | Reality Roundtable #7
Dec 10, 2023
COP 28 and the Smoke Under the Door | Frankly #50
Dec 08, 2023
Nate Hagens: "Episode 100 - The Great Simplification” (Interviewed by Kate Raworth)
Dec 06, 2023
Jeremy Grantham: "Pollution, Population & Purpose”
Nov 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence vs Real Ecology | Frankly #49
Nov 17, 2023
Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy & Geopolitics”
Nov 15, 2023
Fossil Free Food Systems: Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Zetah | Reality Roundtable #06
Nov 12, 2023
Chuck Watson: "The Nuclear Wild West"
Nov 08, 2023
The Biophysical Taxman Cometh | Frankly #48
Nov 03, 2023
David Holmgren: "Small and Slow Solutions - Permaculture Design”
Nov 01, 2023
Frankly Re: Franklys | Frankly #47
Oct 27, 2023
Sir David King: "Global Heating: The Science and the Response”
Oct 25, 2023
Chuck Watson: "War, Rumours of War, and Governance”
Oct 20, 2023
Joris van der Schot: "Oil Refining 101 and Other Energy Stories”
Oct 18, 2023
Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05
Oct 15, 2023
The Middle East: Stormwatch | Frankly #46
Oct 13, 2023
Arthur Berman: "BRICS+, Strategic Petroleum Reserve & Metaphysics”
Oct 11, 2023
One Ring to Rule Them All | Frankly #45
Oct 06, 2023
Luke Gromen: "Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency”
Oct 04, 2023
Nick Haddad: "Insects - A Silent Extinction”
Sep 27, 2023
Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics”
Sep 20, 2023
Robert Sapolsky: "The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications”
Sep 13, 2023
Titanic Oceans: Daniel Pauly, Antonio Turiel, Peter Ward | Reality Roundtable #04
Sep 10, 2023
The Many Shapes of the Carbon Pulse | Frankly #44
Sep 08, 2023
Graham Palmer: "Energy Storage and Civilization: A History”
Sep 06, 2023
Fossil Energy Subsidies: The Bottom Line | Frankly #43
Sep 01, 2023
Lisi Krall: "Agriculture, Surplus, and the Economic Superorganism”
Aug 30, 2023
Running the 'Systems Discourse' Gauntlet | Frankly #42
Aug 25, 2023
Iain McGilchrist: “Wisdom, Nature, and the Brain”
Aug 23, 2023
Jean-Marc Jancovici: "Our Global Energy Predicament"
Aug 16, 2023
Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, & Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #03
Aug 13, 2023
Just Stop Oil !? Part 4 - The Intersection | Frankly #41
Aug 11, 2023
Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy"
Aug 09, 2023
Just Stop Oil !? Part 3 - 10 Pathways to Post-Growth | Frankly #40
Aug 04, 2023
Kevin Anderson: "The Uncomfortable Link between Climate and Equity"
Aug 02, 2023
Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39
Jul 28, 2023
Roger Pielke Jr: "Understanding the Origins of Climate Models"
Jul 26, 2023
The 7 Things That Scare Me Most | Frankly #38
Jul 21, 2023
Taimur Ahmad: "Energy Inequality in the Polycrisis"
Jul 19, 2023
Just Stop Oil !? Part 1 - Gasoline | Frankly #37
Jul 14, 2023
Anne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves"
Jul 12, 2023
Deep(er) Ecology: William Rees, Nora Bateson & Rex Weyler | Reality Roundtable #02
Jul 09, 2023
Cool Privilege | Frankly #36
Jul 07, 2023
Iñigo Capellán Pérez: "Net Energy Analysis: Through a Systems Lens"
Jul 05, 2023
10 Things That Bring Me Joy | Frankly #35
Jun 30, 2023
Kate Raworth: "The Superorganism V. The Doughnut"
Jun 28, 2023
The Limits to Podcasting About Limits
Jun 23, 2023
Daniel Zetah: "Regenerative Agriculture and Personal Sovereignty”
Jun 21, 2023
Kris De Decker: "Looking Back Towards a Human Powered Future"
Jun 14, 2023
"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01
Jun 11, 2023
NATO/Ukraine: Playing Russian Roulette with Complex Life | Frankly #33
Jun 08, 2023
James Fleay: "What's The Deal with Nuclear Energy?"
Jun 07, 2023
Joslin Faith Kehdy: "Lebanon - Beyond Resilience"
May 31, 2023
Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"
May 24, 2023
Reflections on 'Beyond Growth' | Frankly #31
May 19, 2023
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"
May 17, 2023
Missing Words | Frankly #30
May 12, 2023
John Kitzhaber: "What Makes a Healthy Society?"
May 10, 2023
The Words of Our Lives | Earth Day 2023
May 08, 2023
Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"
May 03, 2023
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint"
Apr 26, 2023
Edward Chancellor: "The Price of Time"
Apr 19, 2023
Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29
Apr 14, 2023
Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future"
Apr 12, 2023
The Real Global Macro | Frankly #28
Apr 06, 2023
Antonio Turiel: "Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture"
Apr 05, 2023
USA! (But wait, There’s More) | Frankly #27
Mar 31, 2023
Andrew Millison: "Geomorphology, Permaculture, and The Good Work"
Mar 29, 2023
Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"
Mar 22, 2023
A Bigger Boat | Frankly #26
Mar 16, 2023
Jodi Archambault: "Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency"
Mar 15, 2023
Loss Aversion | Frankly #25
Mar 10, 2023
Gareth Roberts: "Geology, Optimism, & Something Completely Different"
Mar 08, 2023
Nina Simons: "Dancing With Contradictions - A Systems View"
Mar 01, 2023
Jonathan Haidt: "Social Psychology in an Age of Social Fragmentation"
Feb 22, 2023
Olivia Lazard: "Peace and Power in the Mineral Age”
Feb 15, 2023
Gaya Herrington: "Humanity’s Soul: Life or Growth?"
Feb 08, 2023
NOT for Sale | Frankly #24
Feb 03, 2023
David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"
Feb 01, 2023
The Mordor Economy | Frankly #23
Jan 27, 2023
Erica Thompson: "Models, The Hawkmoth Effect, and the Future"
Jan 25, 2023
Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment"
Jan 18, 2023
William E. Rees: "The Fundamental Issue - Overshoot"
Jan 11, 2023
The Simple Story of Civilization with Tom Murphy | Frankly #22
Jan 06, 2023
Giorgos Kallis: "Cultural Surplus and ‘Dépense’"
Jan 04, 2023
Reflections, Predictions, and Interventions | Frankly #21
Dec 29, 2022
DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51
Dec 28, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50
Dec 19, 2022
Staying Warm Data with Nora Bateson | Frankly #20
Dec 16, 2022
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"
Dec 14, 2022
Tomas Björkman: "The Great Transformation - Metamodernism and The Future"
Dec 07, 2022
"Islands" | Frankly #19
Dec 02, 2022
Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future"
Nov 30, 2022
Energy Gratitude | Frankly #18
Nov 24, 2022
Vandana Shiva: "Agroecology and The Great Simplification"
Nov 23, 2022
Russia - Be Careful What We Wish For | Frankly #17
Nov 18, 2022
Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy"
Nov 16, 2022
7 Boundaries of Climate Concern | Frankly #16
Nov 11, 2022
Arthur Berman: “The Devil is in the Diesel”
Nov 09, 2022
7 Realities - No Matter Who Wins
Nov 04, 2022
Betsy Taylor: “Finding Hope in Nature-Based Solutions”
Nov 02, 2022
7 Shades of Jekyll and Hyde | Frankly #14
Oct 30, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
Oct 26, 2022
The Quiet Part Out Loud | Frankly #13
Oct 21, 2022
Marty Kearns: “Building Networks in Uncertain Times”
Oct 19, 2022
The Speed Bump | Frankly #12
Oct 14, 2022
Mary Evelyn Tucker: “Religion, Ecology, and the Future”
Oct 12, 2022
In Spite Of... | Frankly #11
Oct 07, 2022
Ayan Mahamoud: “East Africa and the Poly-Crisis”
Oct 05, 2022
The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10
Sep 30, 2022
Sebastian Heitmann: “Gigacorns”
Sep 28, 2022
Creatures United | Frankly #9
Sep 24, 2022
Martin Sheringer: “The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution”
Sep 21, 2022
The 6th Pool..? | Frankly #8
Sep 17, 2022
Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
Sep 14, 2022
Growth Until Not | Frankly #7
Sep 09, 2022
Steve Vavrus: “Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic’s Temperature”
Sep 07, 2022
Kiril Sokoloff: “What’s the Most Important Question in Today’s World?”
Aug 31, 2022
The End Of Abundance | Frankly #6
Aug 30, 2022
Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why and How"
Aug 24, 2022
Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool"
Aug 17, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #3: Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose”
Aug 10, 2022
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics”
Aug 03, 2022
Josh Farley: "Money, Money, Money"
Jul 27, 2022
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification | Frankly #5
Jul 23, 2022
Joan Diamond: "From Kool-aid to Lemonade"
Jul 20, 2022
Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
Jul 13, 2022
Peter Whybrow: “When More is Not Enough”
Jul 06, 2022
Meeting the Future Halfway | Frankly #4
Jul 02, 2022
Gerardo Ceballos: “Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?”
Jun 29, 2022
Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
Jun 22, 2022
Energy Blindness | Frankly #3
Jun 21, 2022
Tim Watkins: “From Living Like Gods to Living Your Own Story”
Jun 15, 2022
Aza Raskin: “AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth’s Species”
Jun 08, 2022
Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy"
Jun 01, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents”
May 25, 2022
Dr. Simon Michaux: “Minerals and Materials Blindness"”
May 18, 2022
Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
May 11, 2022
Chuck Watson: “Nuclear War - All the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask”
May 04, 2022
Tristan Harris: “Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor”
Apr 27, 2022
Daniel Pauly: "Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities"
Apr 20, 2022
John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
Apr 13, 2022
Jamie Wheal: “Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture”
Apr 06, 2022
Dennis Meadows: “Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In”
Mar 30, 2022
Rex Weyler: "Crisis in the Ecology Movement"
Mar 22, 2022
Are Americans Willing to Risk Nuclear War? | Frankly #2
Mar 18, 2022
Nora Bateson: "Complexity Between The Lines"
Mar 16, 2022
What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly #1
Mar 12, 2022
The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview
Mar 09, 2022
Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”
Mar 02, 2022
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?”
Feb 23, 2022
Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
Feb 16, 2022
Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview
Feb 09, 2022
Herman Daly: "Toward an Ecological Economics”
Feb 02, 2022
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness”
Jan 26, 2022
Chuck Watson: “From MAD to NUTS: Risk, Nukes, & Climate Change”
Jan 19, 2022
Arthur Berman: “Oil: It Was The Best of Fuels, It Was The Worst of Fuels”
Jan 12, 2022
Dr. Shanna Swan: “Sperm and Our Future”
Jan 12, 2022
Richard Gephardt: "Democracy: Old School vs New Reality"
Jan 12, 2022
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