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1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Oil 301: The World After Cheap Energy | Frankly 137

11

Oil 201: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 136

12

Oil 101: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133

17

Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris

18

What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132

19

The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 23

20

Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times: Iran Effects, Local Preparedness, and End of Empire?

21

Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Could Change Our Global Crises with Christine Webb

22

Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure | Frankly 130

23

A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129

24

Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft with Michael Every & Craig Tindale | RR 22

25

Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128

26

How to Inoculate Against Misinformation: Breaking Down Misleading Arguments & Why Science Communication Fails with John Cook

27

Wide Boundary News 2/23/26: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge

28

Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers | Frankly 126

29

The Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jason Bradford

30

Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times | Frankly 125

31

The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen

32

Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks

33

The Consumption Pyramid

34

How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe's Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics

35

A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Considerations on AI

36

Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase Shift Cometh

37

The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida

38

The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120

39

Arms Race or the Human Race? Governance in the Age of AI, Nuclear Threats, and Geopolitical Brinkmanship | RR 21

40

Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve | Frankly 119

41

Why the West Can't Defend Itself: How Material Scarcity Is Reshaping Global Power with Craig Tindale

42

The Things We Take for Granted | Frankly 118

43

How We've 'Drugified' Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age with Anna Lembke

44

Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?

45

End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

46

Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116

47

Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart

48

Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115

49

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares

50

Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater

51

Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114

52

Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza

53

11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113

54

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

55

Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20

56

The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112

57

Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon

58

The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say

59

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

60

What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism

61

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

62

Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If The Grid Fails with Meredith Angwin

63

Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries

64

Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman

65

The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think

66

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

67

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

68

This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107

69

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

70

10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106

71

How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18

72

Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith

73

Key Blindspots of the "Walrus" Movement | Frankly 105

74

How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?: The Science Behind Identity, Purpose, and Motivation with Taylor Guthrie

75

Ducks and Blueberries: A Reflection on Price, Cost and Value

76

The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully with Stephen Jenkinson

77

The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth with Oliver Milman

78

The Ghost of Dopamine Past | Frankly 103

79

Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden

80

Towards Individual Wisdom & Restraint

81

The Packaging Revolution: Industry's Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter

82

This Week's Learnings: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102

83

The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley

84

What I Want to Want for the Future | Frankly 101

85

Moving from Apathy to Action: How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17

86

Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100

87

Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy

88

The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | Frankly 99

89

The National Security Risks We're Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats with Rod Schoonover

90

The Systems Science Behind Our Global Crises: How Energy Drives Economics, Ecology, and Our Future | The Great Simplification Movie

91

Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge

92

10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria | Frankly 98

93

AI's Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations with Zak Stein

94

Why the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes | Frankly 97

95

The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life with Malin Pinsky

96

The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96

97

Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action with Andrew Millison

98

The Parent and the Pendulum | Frankly 95

99

No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature with Thomas Crowther

100

Social Overshoot? Dunbar's Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs | Frankly 94

101

Fragile Electric Grids: Did Renewables Cause the Blackout in Spain? with Pedro Prieto

102

Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking? | Frankly 93

103

Sobriété vs Poverty: Preparing for a New Cultural Paradigm with Jean-Marc Jancovici

104

Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life? | Frankly 92

105

The Neuroscience of Good Journalism: How Constructive Journalism Uses Information to Empower with Maren Urner

106

Unintended Consequences in a Complex World | Frankly 91

107

Planetary Insights: How Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Earth's Predicament with Will Marshall

108

Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities

109

Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler

110

Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can't, Won't and Might Happen | Frankly 90

111

Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins

112

Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond 'Big Tech' to Save Open Societies with Audrey Tang

113

The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers' Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War | Reality Roundtable #16

114

Thinking and Feeling | Frankly 89

115

Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare with Dan O'Connor

116

The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience with Francis Weller

117

Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River | Frankly 88

118

2000-Watt Society: The Realities of Living a Low(er) Energy Lifestyle with Peter Strack

119

(Some of) The Central Questions of Our Time | Frankly 87

120

Wisdom Over Power: Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist

121

What is Wealth? | Frankly 86

122

The 'Decline' of Nations: How Elite Surplus and Inequality Lead to Societal Upheaval with Peter Turchin

123

The Light Triad | Frankly 85

124

Reimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine

125

The Plastic Crisis: A Health and Environmental Emergency | Reality Roundtable 15

126

Share Your Story: A Call for Responses to The Great Simplification | Frankly 84

127

Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions with Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

128

Artificial Intelligence and the Lost Ark | Frankly 83

129

The Uncertain Future of Oil: Energy Poverty, Depletion, and 'Green' Ambitions with Scott Tinker

130

Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty | Frankly 82

131

Navigating International Crises: The Evolving Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations with Birgitte Bischoff

132

The Future is Local: Bioregioning 101

133

Reality and Perseverance in India: Pollution, Poverty, and Policy with Sunita Narain

134

The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and the Search for Coherence with John Vervaeke

135

Best of TGS: What Would You Do With a Magic Wand?

136

Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81

137

The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities with Christian Sawyer

138

"Thank You for Ruining My Life" | Frankly 80

139

The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash with Jeremy Grantham

140

Shutting Off The Plastic Tap: A Global Treaty To Regulate Petrochemical Pollution? with Jane Muncke

141

The Biggest Takeaways from the Logic of the Superorganism

142

Existential Risks: The Biggest Threats to Life as We Know It with Luke Kemp

143

A Brief Clarification on Human Behavior | Frankly 78

144

Energy Crises & Global Power Shifts: The Struggle for Stability in Israel, Iran, and Beyond | Helen Thompson

145

Future Council: How Children are Responding to our Planetary Crises with Damon Gameau and The Future Council

146

7 Philosophies on the Future | Frankly 77

147

Fires in the Rainforest: The Impossible Economics of a Disappearing Amazon | André Guimarães

148

The Battles of Our Time | Frankly 76

149

Carbon Sink to Carbon Source? How the Amazon Rainforest Could Become a Self-Drying Savanna | Carlos Nobre | TGS 150

150

Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking with John Fullerton

151

Somebody's Gonna Win | Frankly 75

152

Preserving Democracy: A Call for Civility with Richard Gephardt

153

The Global Stakes of the U.S. Election: Debt, The Dollar, and Military Power | Reality Roundtable #12

154

The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System with Indy Johar

155

Ecological Awakening: A Path Toward Holistic Adulthood with Bill Plotkin

156

Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth's Critical Systems with Kari Stoever

157

The Lament of the Bigfoot | Frankly 74

158

Inner Development Goals: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm

159

Tales from the Carbon Pulse | Reality Roundtable 11

160

The Superorganism and the Self | Frankly 73

161

Rooted in Connection: Exploring the Hidden Ties in Earth's Forests with Suzanne Simard

162

What if Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72

163

History for Tomorrow: Uncovering Future Possibilities from Humanity's Past with Roman Krznaric

164

Weakest Links: Depletion, Supply Chains, and Trust | Frankly 71

165

Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions with Stefan Rahmstorf

166

U.S. Full Spectrum Dominance: Nuclear Risks and The End of Empire with Jeffrey Sachs

167

Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health with Daniel Christian Wahl

168

The Physics of Connection: Understanding Relationships and Ecology with Fritjof Capra

169

The Art of Movement Building: Personal Liberation for Public Change with Mamphela Ramphele

170

Ask Me Anything - Your Questions About TGS Answered | Frankly 70

171

The Population Problem: Human Impact, Extinctions, and the Biodiversity Crisis with Corey Bradshaw

172

Goldilocks Technology - A Preliminary Checklist | Frankly 69

173

Biomimicry: Applying Nature's Wisdom to Human Problems with Janine Benyus

174

Overshoot and Its 7 Fundamental Drivers | Frankly 68

175

Planetary Boundaries: Exceeding Earth's Safe Limits with Johan Rockström

176

The Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10

177

The Solutions that can be Named are not the Solutions | Frankly #67

178

Indigenous Wisdom: Resilience, Adaptation, and Seeing Nature as Ourselves with Casey Camp-Horinek

179

The Reality Party | Frankly #66

180

Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger

181

And Then What?: Using Wide-Boundary Lenses | Frankly 65

182

Eat, Poop, Die: Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman

183

Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable with Krista Tippett

184

The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future | Frankly 64

185

The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures with Jonathan Rowson

186

Sound Thinking: Using Music, Resonance, and Harmonics for Human Wellbeing with Alexandre Tannous

187

Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway

188

The Next Generation's Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable #9

189

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment"

190

Nuclear Conflict: 7 Key Questions for Sustainable Futures | Frankly #63

191

Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"

192

Levke Caesar: "Oceanic Slowdown: Decoding the AMOC"

193

Special Request & Community Announcement

194

Chris Keefer: "Empowering the Future: from Nuclear to Podcasting"

195

The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable 8

196

Zak Stein: "Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis"

197

Pella Thiel: "Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature"

198

7 Thought Experiments for Earth Day | Frankly #62

199

Tom Chi: "Net Positive for the Planet – from Beavers to Bionics"

200

The Strait of Hormuz and 'the Spice' | Frankly #61

201

Luther Krueger: "Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview"

202

The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About | Frankly #60

203

Michael Every: "The Many -Isms of the Metacrisis"

204

7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism | Frankly #59

205

Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology"

206

The Fellowship of the Ring - 'Bend Not Break' Version | Frankly 58

207

Riane Eisler: "Domination and Partnership in Society"

208

Information Bifurcation | Frankly #57

209

Patrick Knodel: "Question Everything - Towards Cooperation & Change"

210

Chuck Watson: "NATO in Ukraine: from Proxy to Participants"

211

Lyn Alden: "The Myth of Frictionless Finance"

212

Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw | Frankly #56

213

Samantha Sweetwater: "Life at the Center"

214

7 Key Interventions for the Future | Frankly #55

215

Sandra Faber: "The Universe and Our Place in It"

216

John Robb: "Networked Tribalism, AI, and Asteroids"

217

Reflections From India | Frankly #54

218

Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics"

219

Steve Keen: "On the Origins of Energy Blindness"

220

Mario Giampietro: "Models with Meaning - Changing Social Practices"

221

Alexa Firmenich: "Biodiversity, Beauty, and Being"

222

The Haves & The Have-Nots | Frankly #53

223

Leon Simons: "Aerosol Demasking & Global Heating"

224

Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging"

225

The Behavioral Stack | Frankly #52

226

Peter Brannen: "Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today"

227

Bill McKibben: "Climate, Movements, and Power"

228

Systemic Themes for 2024 | Frankly #51

229

Arthur Berman: "Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound"

230

Stephanie Hoopes, Peter Kilde, Marc Perry, Dalitso Sulamoyo: "Poverty Blind" | Reality Roundtable #7

231

COP 28 and the Smoke Under the Door | Frankly #50

232

Nate Hagens: "Episode 100 - The Great Simplification" (Interviewed by Kate Raworth)

233

Jeremy Grantham: "Pollution, Population & Purpose"

234

Artificial Intelligence vs Real Ecology | Frankly #49

235

Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy & Geopolitics"

236

Fossil Free Food Systems: Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Zetah | Reality Roundtable #06

237

Chuck Watson: "The Nuclear Wild West"

238

The Biophysical Taxman Cometh | Frankly #48

239

David Holmgren: "Small and Slow Solutions - Permaculture Design"

240

Frankly Re: Franklys | Frankly #47

241

Sir David King: "Global Heating: The Science and the Response"

242

Chuck Watson: "War, Rumours of War, and Governance"

243

Joris van der Schot: "Oil Refining 101 and Other Energy Stories"

244

Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05

245

The Middle East: Stormwatch | Frankly #46

246

Arthur Berman: "BRICS+, Strategic Petroleum Reserve & Metaphysics"

247

One Ring to Rule Them All | Frankly #45

248

Luke Gromen: "Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency"

249

Nick Haddad: "Insects - A Silent Extinction"

250

Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics"

251

Robert Sapolsky: "The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications"

252

Titanic Oceans: Daniel Pauly, Antonio Turiel, Peter Ward | Reality Roundtable #04

253

The Many Shapes of the Carbon Pulse | Frankly #44

254

Graham Palmer: "Energy Storage and Civilization: A History"

255

Fossil Energy Subsidies: The Bottom Line | Frankly #43

256

Lisi Krall: "Agriculture, Surplus, and the Economic Superorganism"

257

Running the 'Systems Discourse' Gauntlet | Frankly #42

258

Iain McGilchrist: "Wisdom, Nature, and the Brain"

259

Jean-Marc Jancovici: "Our Global Energy Predicament"

260

Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, & Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #03

261

Just Stop Oil !? Part 4 - The Intersection | Frankly #41

262

Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy"

263

Just Stop Oil !? Part 3 - 10 Pathways to Post-Growth | Frankly #40

264

Kevin Anderson: "The Uncomfortable Link between Climate and Equity"

265

Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39

266

Roger Pielke Jr: "Understanding the Origins of Climate Models"

267

The 7 Things That Scare Me Most | Frankly #38

268

Taimur Ahmad: "Energy Inequality in the Polycrisis"

269

Just Stop Oil !? Part 1 - Gasoline | Frankly #37

270

Anne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves"

271

Deep(er) Ecology: William Rees, Nora Bateson & Rex Weyler | Reality Roundtable #02

272

Cool Privilege | Frankly #36

273

Iñigo Capellán Pérez: "Net Energy Analysis: Through a Systems Lens"

274

10 Things That Bring Me Joy | Frankly #35

275

Kate Raworth: "The Superorganism V. The Doughnut"

276

The Limits to Podcasting About Limits

277

Daniel Zetah: "Regenerative Agriculture and Personal Sovereignty"

278

Kris De Decker: "Looking Back Towards a Human Powered Future"

279

"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01

280

NATO/Ukraine: Playing Russian Roulette with Complex Life | Frankly #33

281

James Fleay: "What's The Deal with Nuclear Energy?"

282

Joslin Faith Kehdy: "Lebanon - Beyond Resilience"

283

Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"

284

Reflections on 'Beyond Growth' | Frankly #31

285

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"

286

Missing Words | Frankly #30

287

John Kitzhaber: "What Makes a Healthy Society?"

288

The Words of Our Lives | Earth Day 2023

289

Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"

290

Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint"

291

Edward Chancellor: "The Price of Time"

292

Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29

293

Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future"

294

The Real Global Macro | Frankly #28

295

Antonio Turiel: "Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture"

296

USA! (But wait, There's More) | Frankly #27

297

Andrew Millison: "Geomorphology, Permaculture, and The Good Work"

298

Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"

299

A Bigger Boat | Frankly #26

300

Jodi Archambault: "Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency"

301

Loss Aversion | Frankly #25

302

Gareth Roberts: "Geology, Optimism, & Something Completely Different"

303

Nina Simons: "Dancing With Contradictions - A Systems View"

304

Jonathan Haidt: "Social Psychology in an Age of Social Fragmentation"

305

Olivia Lazard: "Peace and Power in the Mineral Age"

306

Gaya Herrington: "Humanity's Soul: Life or Growth?"

307

NOT for Sale | Frankly #24

308

David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"

309

The Mordor Economy | Frankly #23

310

Erica Thompson: "Models, The Hawkmoth Effect, and the Future"

311

Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment"

312

William E. Rees: "The Fundamental Issue - Overshoot"

313

The Simple Story of Civilization with Tom Murphy | Frankly #22

314

Giorgos Kallis: "Cultural Surplus and 'Dépense'"

315

Reflections, Predictions, and Interventions | Frankly #21

316

DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51

317

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50

318

Staying Warm Data with Nora Bateson | Frankly #20

319

Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"

320

Tomas Björkman: "The Great Transformation - Metamodernism and The Future"

321

"Islands" | Frankly #19

322

Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future"

323

Energy Gratitude | Frankly #18

324

Vandana Shiva: "Agroecology and The Great Simplification"

325

Russia - Be Careful What We Wish For | Frankly #17

326

Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy"

327

7 Boundaries of Climate Concern | Frankly #16

328

Arthur Berman: "The Devil is in the Diesel"

329

7 Realities - No Matter Who Wins

330

Betsy Taylor: "Finding Hope in Nature-Based Solutions"

331

7 Shades of Jekyll and Hyde | Frankly #14

332

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis"

333

The Quiet Part Out Loud | Frankly #13

334

Marty Kearns: "Building Networks in Uncertain Times"

335

The Speed Bump | Frankly #12

336

Mary Evelyn Tucker: "Religion, Ecology, and the Future"

337

In Spite Of... | Frankly #11

338

Ayan Mahamoud: "East Africa and the Poly-Crisis"

339

The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10

340

Sebastian Heitmann: "Gigacorns"

341

Creatures United | Frankly #9

342

Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"

343

The 6th Pool..? | Frankly #8

344

Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"

345

Growth Until Not | Frankly #7

346

Steve Vavrus: "Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic's Temperature"

347

Kiril Sokoloff: "What's the Most Important Question in Today's World?"

348

The End Of Abundance | Frankly #6

349

Kris De Decker: "Low Tech: What, Why and How"

350

Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool"

351

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #3: Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose"

352

Steve Keen: "Mythonomics"

353

Josh Farley: "Money, Money, Money"

354

FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification | Frankly #5

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Joan Diamond: "From Kool-aid to Lemonade"

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Joe Tainter: "Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification"

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Peter Whybrow: "When More is Not Enough"

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Meeting the Future Halfway | Frankly #4

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Gerardo Ceballos: "Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?"

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Jason Bradford: "A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming"

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Energy Blindness | Frankly #3

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Tim Watkins: "From Living Like Gods to Living Your Own Story"

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Aza Raskin: "AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth's Species"

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Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy"

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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents"

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Dr. Simon Michaux: "Minerals and Materials Blindness""

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Thomas Murphy: "Physics and Planetary Ambitions"

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Chuck Watson: "Nuclear War - All the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask"

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Tristan Harris: "Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor"

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Daniel Pauly: "Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities"

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John Gowdy: "Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"

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Jamie Wheal: "Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture"

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Dennis Meadows: "Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In"

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Rex Weyler: "Crisis in the Ecology Movement"

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Are Americans Willing to Risk Nuclear War? | Frankly #2

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Nora Bateson: "Complexity Between The Lines"

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What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly #1

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The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview

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Paul Ehrlich: "Was the Population Bomb Defused?"

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Peter Ward: "Oceans - What's the Worst that Can Happen?"

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Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"

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Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview

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Herman Daly: "Toward an Ecological Economics"

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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness"

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Chuck Watson: "From MAD to NUTS: Risk, Nukes, & Climate Change"

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Arthur Berman: "Oil: It Was The Best of Fuels, It Was The Worst of Fuels"

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Dr. Shanna Swan: "Sperm and Our Future"

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Richard Gephardt: "Democracy: Old School vs New Reality"

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