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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens — 432 episodes · page 1 of 5
Optionality Collapse: We're Investing in a Future That Won't Exist with Indy Johar
Humanity's Icarus Moment: The Wings, the Sea, and the Sun of AI | Frankly 161
A World-Changing Event: We're Not Going Back to January 2026 with Art Berman
Climate Uncertainty: The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives? with Zeke Hausfather
A State of the World Address: The Climate Speech We'll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160
The Escalation Trap: Is America's Strategy in Iran Backfiring?
The Real Work: Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159
Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind? | Frankly 158
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy
Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System | Frankly 157
The Collapse of Our Mythology: Can Humanity Choose What's Next? with Charles Eisenstein
Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)
The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231
An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127
The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155
Your Anxiety Is Normal: A New Psychology for a World in Crisis with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek
Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future | Frankly 154
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153
The End of Globalization: Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie
Watch With Both Eyes Open: The Beauty and the Horror of Our Moment
Taking Love Seriously: What Ancient Wisdom & Modern Psychology Say About Interconnectedness with John Churchill
Foundations Before Outcomes: The Future Beneath Your Feet | How to Think About the Future Pt 5, Frankly 150
Can Money Serve Life? How to Fund Communities Doing the Real Work with Matthew Monahan
A Legacy Worth Celebrating? Reflecting on 250 Years of the American Experiment | Frankly 149
Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades? | How to Think About the Future Part 4, Frankly 148
We Weren't Expecting This: What Does a Super El Niño Mean For the Climate? with Tad Patzek
How to Play 5D Chess: It's Not What You Think | Frankly 147
No More Dystopian Stories: How to See a Future Worth Living In with Rob Hopkins
The Ultimate Alternative: Are You Okay With Nuclear Warfare? | Frankly 146
The U.S. Can't Back Down: The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every
Why 'Community' Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager with Nora Bateson, Jonathan Goldsmith & Lucas Jackson | RR 26
How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World | Frankly 145
The Missing Half of Climate Change: Why Our Planet is at 50% Capacity and How to Get it Back with Brett KenCairn
Casting Call for a Future Frankly
A Word I Can't Seem to Understand: Non-Duality and Our Living World | Frankly 144
Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): Why Mindfulness Matters When the World Is Breaking Down
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
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 2): Navigating Dread and Carrying the Weight of Tomorrow | Frankly 142
A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? with Art Berman
Wide Boundary News: Sacrificing Wilderness, Oil Data Propaganda, and Feeding the Superorganism's Brain
Why Each American Lives Like a 40-Ton Whale: Power, Overshoot, and Climate with Tad Patzek
A Perspective From Lebanon: Who Will We Be When Things Get Hard? | Frankly 140
This War Changes Everything: Are We Ready for Energy Shockwaves From the Strait of Hormuz? with Rory Johnston
How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 139
Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist
How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138
The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 24
Everything Is About to Change: The World After Cheap Energy | Oil 301, Frankly 137
Built for Cheap Energy: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Oil 201, Frankly 136
The Untold Energy Story: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Oil 101, Frankly 135
Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Meditation with Sam Harris
What Does "Winning" Even Mean?: A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134
Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer
Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133
Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris
What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132
The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 23
Preparing for a More Fragile World: Iran Effects and End of Empire? | Frankly 131
Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Could Change Our Global Crises with Christine Webb
Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure | Frankly 130
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129
Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft with Michael Every & Craig Tindale | RR 22
Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128
How to Inoculate Against Misinformation: Breaking Down Misleading Arguments & Why Science Communication Fails with John Cook
Wide Boundary News: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge
Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers | Frankly 126
The Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jason Bradford
The End of 'Progress?': Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times | Frankly 125
The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen
Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks
The Consumption Pyramid
How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe's Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics
A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Considerations on AI
Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase Shift Cometh
The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida
The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120
Arms Race or the Human Race? Governance in the Age of AI, Nuclear Threats, and Geopolitical Brinkmanship | RR 21
Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve | Frankly 119
Why the West Can't Defend Itself: How Material Scarcity Is Reshaping Global Power with Craig Tindale
The Things We Take for Granted | Frankly 118
How We've 'Drugified' Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age with Anna Lembke
Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?
End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116
Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart
Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares
Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113
Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson
Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20
The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon
The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say