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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens — 409 episodes
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
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
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism
Will Coral Reefs Be Gone by 2050? How Bleaching, Acidification, and Ocean Heating are Killing Coral Reefs with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If The Grid Fails with Meredith Angwin
Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries
Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman
The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think
The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107
Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump with Anastassia Makarieva
10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106
How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith
Key Blindspots of the "Walrus" Movement | Frankly 105
How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?: The Science Behind Identity, Purpose, and Motivation with Taylor Guthrie
Ducks and Blueberries: A Reflection on Price, Cost and Value
The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully with Stephen Jenkinson
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth with Oliver Milman
The Ghost of Dopamine Past | Frankly 103
Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden
Towards Individual Wisdom & Restraint
The Packaging Revolution: Industry's Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter
This Week's Learnings: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley
What I Want to Want for the Future | Frankly 101
Moving from Apathy to Action: How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17
Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100
Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy
The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | Frankly 99
The National Security Risks We're Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats with Rod Schoonover
The Systems Science Behind Our Global Crises: How Energy Drives Economics, Ecology, and Our Future | The Great Simplification Movie
Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge
10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria | Frankly 98
AI's Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations with Zak Stein
Why the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes | Frankly 97
The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life with Malin Pinsky
The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96
Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action with Andrew Millison
The Parent and the Pendulum | Frankly 95
No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature with Thomas Crowther
Social Overshoot? Dunbar's Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs | Frankly 94
Fragile Electric Grids: Did Renewables Cause the Blackout in Spain? with Pedro Prieto
Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking? | Frankly 93
Sobriété vs Poverty: Preparing for a New Cultural Paradigm with Jean-Marc Jancovici
Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life? | Frankly 92
The Neuroscience of Good Journalism: How Constructive Journalism Uses Information to Empower with Maren Urner
Unintended Consequences in a Complex World | Frankly 91
Planetary Insights: How Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Earth's Predicament with Will Marshall
Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities
Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler
Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can't, Won't and Might Happen | Frankly 90
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins
Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond 'Big Tech' to Save Open Societies with Audrey Tang
The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers' Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War | Reality Roundtable #16
Thinking and Feeling | Frankly 89
Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare with Dan O'Connor
The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience with Francis Weller
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River | Frankly 88
2000-Watt Society: The Realities of Living a Low(er) Energy Lifestyle with Peter Strack
(Some of) The Central Questions of Our Time | Frankly 87
Wisdom Over Power: Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist
What is Wealth? | Frankly 86
The 'Decline' of Nations: How Elite Surplus and Inequality Lead to Societal Upheaval with Peter Turchin
The Light Triad | Frankly 85
Reimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine
The Plastic Crisis: A Health and Environmental Emergency | Reality Roundtable 15
Share Your Story: A Call for Responses to The Great Simplification | Frankly 84
Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions with Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Artificial Intelligence and the Lost Ark | Frankly 83
The Uncertain Future of Oil: Energy Poverty, Depletion, and 'Green' Ambitions with Scott Tinker
Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty | Frankly 82
Navigating International Crises: The Evolving Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations with Birgitte Bischoff
The Future is Local: Bioregioning 101
Reality and Perseverance in India: Pollution, Poverty, and Policy with Sunita Narain
The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and the Search for Coherence with John Vervaeke
Best of TGS: What Would You Do With a Magic Wand?
Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81
The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities with Christian Sawyer
"Thank You for Ruining My Life" | Frankly 80
The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash with Jeremy Grantham
Shutting Off The Plastic Tap: A Global Treaty To Regulate Petrochemical Pollution? with Jane Muncke
The Biggest Takeaways from the Logic of the Superorganism
Existential Risks: The Biggest Threats to Life as We Know It with Luke Kemp
A Brief Clarification on Human Behavior | Frankly 78
Energy Crises & Global Power Shifts: The Struggle for Stability in Israel, Iran, and Beyond | Helen Thompson
Future Council: How Children are Responding to our Planetary Crises with Damon Gameau and The Future Council
7 Philosophies on the Future | Frankly 77
Fires in the Rainforest: The Impossible Economics of a Disappearing Amazon | André Guimarães
The Battles of Our Time | Frankly 76
Carbon Sink to Carbon Source? How the Amazon Rainforest Could Become a Self-Drying Savanna | Carlos Nobre | TGS 150
Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking with John Fullerton
Somebody's Gonna Win | Frankly 75
Preserving Democracy: A Call for Civility with Richard Gephardt
The Global Stakes of the U.S. Election: Debt, The Dollar, and Military Power | Reality Roundtable #12
The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System with Indy Johar
Ecological Awakening: A Path Toward Holistic Adulthood with Bill Plotkin
Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth's Critical Systems with Kari Stoever
The Lament of the Bigfoot | Frankly 74
Inner Development Goals: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm
Tales from the Carbon Pulse | Reality Roundtable 11
The Superorganism and the Self | Frankly 73
Rooted in Connection: Exploring the Hidden Ties in Earth's Forests with Suzanne Simard
What if Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72
History for Tomorrow: Uncovering Future Possibilities from Humanity's Past with Roman Krznaric
Weakest Links: Depletion, Supply Chains, and Trust | Frankly 71
Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions with Stefan Rahmstorf
U.S. Full Spectrum Dominance: Nuclear Risks and The End of Empire with Jeffrey Sachs
Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health with Daniel Christian Wahl
The Physics of Connection: Understanding Relationships and Ecology with Fritjof Capra
The Art of Movement Building: Personal Liberation for Public Change with Mamphela Ramphele
Ask Me Anything - Your Questions About TGS Answered | Frankly 70
The Population Problem: Human Impact, Extinctions, and the Biodiversity Crisis with Corey Bradshaw
Goldilocks Technology - A Preliminary Checklist | Frankly 69
Biomimicry: Applying Nature's Wisdom to Human Problems with Janine Benyus
Overshoot and Its 7 Fundamental Drivers | Frankly 68
Planetary Boundaries: Exceeding Earth's Safe Limits with Johan Rockström
The Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10
The Solutions that can be Named are not the Solutions | Frankly #67
Indigenous Wisdom: Resilience, Adaptation, and Seeing Nature as Ourselves with Casey Camp-Horinek
The Reality Party | Frankly #66
Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger
And Then What?: Using Wide-Boundary Lenses | Frankly 65
Eat, Poop, Die: Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman
Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable with Krista Tippett
The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future | Frankly 64
The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures with Jonathan Rowson
Sound Thinking: Using Music, Resonance, and Harmonics for Human Wellbeing with Alexandre Tannous
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway
The Next Generation's Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable #9
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment"
Nuclear Conflict: 7 Key Questions for Sustainable Futures | Frankly #63
Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"
Levke Caesar: "Oceanic Slowdown: Decoding the AMOC"
Special Request & Community Announcement
Chris Keefer: "Empowering the Future: from Nuclear to Podcasting"
The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable 8
Zak Stein: "Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis"
Pella Thiel: "Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature"
7 Thought Experiments for Earth Day | Frankly #62
Tom Chi: "Net Positive for the Planet – from Beavers to Bionics"
The Strait of Hormuz and 'the Spice' | Frankly #61
Luther Krueger: "Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview"
The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About | Frankly #60
Michael Every: "The Many -Isms of the Metacrisis"
7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism | Frankly #59
Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology"
The Fellowship of the Ring - 'Bend Not Break' Version | Frankly 58
Riane Eisler: "Domination and Partnership in Society"
Information Bifurcation | Frankly #57
Patrick Knodel: "Question Everything - Towards Cooperation & Change"
Chuck Watson: "NATO in Ukraine: from Proxy to Participants"
Lyn Alden: "The Myth of Frictionless Finance"
Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw | Frankly #56
Samantha Sweetwater: "Life at the Center"
7 Key Interventions for the Future | Frankly #55
Sandra Faber: "The Universe and Our Place in It"
John Robb: "Networked Tribalism, AI, and Asteroids"
Reflections From India | Frankly #54
Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics"
Steve Keen: "On the Origins of Energy Blindness"
Mario Giampietro: "Models with Meaning - Changing Social Practices"
Alexa Firmenich: "Biodiversity, Beauty, and Being"
The Haves & The Have-Nots | Frankly #53
Leon Simons: "Aerosol Demasking & Global Heating"
Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging"
The Behavioral Stack | Frankly #52
Peter Brannen: "Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today"
Bill McKibben: "Climate, Movements, and Power"
Systemic Themes for 2024 | Frankly #51
Arthur Berman: "Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound"
Stephanie Hoopes, Peter Kilde, Marc Perry, Dalitso Sulamoyo: "Poverty Blind" | Reality Roundtable #7
COP 28 and the Smoke Under the Door | Frankly #50
Nate Hagens: "Episode 100 - The Great Simplification" (Interviewed by Kate Raworth)
Jeremy Grantham: "Pollution, Population & Purpose"
Artificial Intelligence vs Real Ecology | Frankly #49
Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy & Geopolitics"
Fossil Free Food Systems: Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Zetah | Reality Roundtable #06
Chuck Watson: "The Nuclear Wild West"
The Biophysical Taxman Cometh | Frankly #48
David Holmgren: "Small and Slow Solutions - Permaculture Design"
Frankly Re: Franklys | Frankly #47
Sir David King: "Global Heating: The Science and the Response"
Chuck Watson: "War, Rumours of War, and Governance"
Joris van der Schot: "Oil Refining 101 and Other Energy Stories"
Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05
The Middle East: Stormwatch | Frankly #46
Arthur Berman: "BRICS+, Strategic Petroleum Reserve & Metaphysics"
One Ring to Rule Them All | Frankly #45
Luke Gromen: "Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency"
Nick Haddad: "Insects - A Silent Extinction"
Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics"
Robert Sapolsky: "The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications"
Titanic Oceans: Daniel Pauly, Antonio Turiel, Peter Ward | Reality Roundtable #04
The Many Shapes of the Carbon Pulse | Frankly #44
Graham Palmer: "Energy Storage and Civilization: A History"
Fossil Energy Subsidies: The Bottom Line | Frankly #43
Lisi Krall: "Agriculture, Surplus, and the Economic Superorganism"
Running the 'Systems Discourse' Gauntlet | Frankly #42
Iain McGilchrist: "Wisdom, Nature, and the Brain"
Jean-Marc Jancovici: "Our Global Energy Predicament"
Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, & Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #03
Just Stop Oil !? Part 4 - The Intersection | Frankly #41
Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy"
Just Stop Oil !? Part 3 - 10 Pathways to Post-Growth | Frankly #40
Kevin Anderson: "The Uncomfortable Link between Climate and Equity"
Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39
Roger Pielke Jr: "Understanding the Origins of Climate Models"
The 7 Things That Scare Me Most | Frankly #38
Taimur Ahmad: "Energy Inequality in the Polycrisis"
Just Stop Oil !? Part 1 - Gasoline | Frankly #37
Anne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves"
Deep(er) Ecology: William Rees, Nora Bateson & Rex Weyler | Reality Roundtable #02
Cool Privilege | Frankly #36
Iñigo Capellán Pérez: "Net Energy Analysis: Through a Systems Lens"
10 Things That Bring Me Joy | Frankly #35
Kate Raworth: "The Superorganism V. The Doughnut"
The Limits to Podcasting About Limits
Daniel Zetah: "Regenerative Agriculture and Personal Sovereignty"
Kris De Decker: "Looking Back Towards a Human Powered Future"
"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01
NATO/Ukraine: Playing Russian Roulette with Complex Life | Frankly #33
James Fleay: "What's The Deal with Nuclear Energy?"
Joslin Faith Kehdy: "Lebanon - Beyond Resilience"
Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"
Reflections on 'Beyond Growth' | Frankly #31
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"
Missing Words | Frankly #30
John Kitzhaber: "What Makes a Healthy Society?"
The Words of Our Lives | Earth Day 2023
Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint"
Edward Chancellor: "The Price of Time"
Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29
Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future"
The Real Global Macro | Frankly #28
Antonio Turiel: "Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture"
USA! (But wait, There's More) | Frankly #27
Andrew Millison: "Geomorphology, Permaculture, and The Good Work"
Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"
A Bigger Boat | Frankly #26
Jodi Archambault: "Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency"
Loss Aversion | Frankly #25
Gareth Roberts: "Geology, Optimism, & Something Completely Different"
Nina Simons: "Dancing With Contradictions - A Systems View"
Jonathan Haidt: "Social Psychology in an Age of Social Fragmentation"
Olivia Lazard: "Peace and Power in the Mineral Age"
Gaya Herrington: "Humanity's Soul: Life or Growth?"
NOT for Sale | Frankly #24
David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"
The Mordor Economy | Frankly #23
Erica Thompson: "Models, The Hawkmoth Effect, and the Future"
Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment"
William E. Rees: "The Fundamental Issue - Overshoot"
The Simple Story of Civilization with Tom Murphy | Frankly #22
Giorgos Kallis: "Cultural Surplus and 'Dépense'"
Reflections, Predictions, and Interventions | Frankly #21
DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50
Staying Warm Data with Nora Bateson | Frankly #20
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"
Tomas Björkman: "The Great Transformation - Metamodernism and The Future"
"Islands" | Frankly #19
Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future"
Energy Gratitude | Frankly #18
Vandana Shiva: "Agroecology and The Great Simplification"
Russia - Be Careful What We Wish For | Frankly #17
Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy"
7 Boundaries of Climate Concern | Frankly #16
Arthur Berman: "The Devil is in the Diesel"
7 Realities - No Matter Who Wins
Betsy Taylor: "Finding Hope in Nature-Based Solutions"
7 Shades of Jekyll and Hyde | Frankly #14
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis"
The Quiet Part Out Loud | Frankly #13
Marty Kearns: "Building Networks in Uncertain Times"
The Speed Bump | Frankly #12
Mary Evelyn Tucker: "Religion, Ecology, and the Future"
In Spite Of... | Frankly #11
Ayan Mahamoud: "East Africa and the Poly-Crisis"
The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10
Sebastian Heitmann: "Gigacorns"
Creatures United | Frankly #9
Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"
The 6th Pool..? | Frankly #8
Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
Growth Until Not | Frankly #7
Steve Vavrus: "Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic's Temperature"
Kiril Sokoloff: "What's the Most Important Question in Today's World?"
The End Of Abundance | Frankly #6
Kris De Decker: "Low Tech: What, Why and How"
Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool"
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #3: Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose"
Steve Keen: "Mythonomics"
Josh Farley: "Money, Money, Money"
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification | Frankly #5
Joan Diamond: "From Kool-aid to Lemonade"
Joe Tainter: "Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification"
Peter Whybrow: "When More is Not Enough"
Meeting the Future Halfway | Frankly #4
Gerardo Ceballos: "Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?"
Jason Bradford: "A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming"
Energy Blindness | Frankly #3
Tim Watkins: "From Living Like Gods to Living Your Own Story"
Aza Raskin: "AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth's Species"
Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy"
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents"
Dr. Simon Michaux: "Minerals and Materials Blindness""
Thomas Murphy: "Physics and Planetary Ambitions"
Chuck Watson: "Nuclear War - All the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask"
Tristan Harris: "Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor"
Daniel Pauly: "Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities"
John Gowdy: "Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
Jamie Wheal: "Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture"
Dennis Meadows: "Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In"
Rex Weyler: "Crisis in the Ecology Movement"
Are Americans Willing to Risk Nuclear War? | Frankly #2
Nora Bateson: "Complexity Between The Lines"
What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly #1
The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview
Paul Ehrlich: "Was the Population Bomb Defused?"
Peter Ward: "Oceans - What's the Worst that Can Happen?"
Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview
Herman Daly: "Toward an Ecological Economics"
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness"
Chuck Watson: "From MAD to NUTS: Risk, Nukes, & Climate Change"
Arthur Berman: "Oil: It Was The Best of Fuels, It Was The Worst of Fuels"
Dr. Shanna Swan: "Sperm and Our Future"
Richard Gephardt: "Democracy: Old School vs New Reality"
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