The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 320
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Daniel Pauly: "Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities"
On this episode, we meet with Professor at the University of British Columbia and Founder of Sea Around Us, Dr. Daniel Pauly.
Dr. Pauly shares the role warming sea water plays in fish migration. How …
John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
On this episode, we meet with Ecological Economist, John Gowdy.
Gowdy explores the revolution in biology and its significance in society. How do different cultures manifest human nature? What role ha…
Jamie Wheal: “Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture”
On this episode, we meet with Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project, Jamie Wheal. Jamie discusses the evolutionary importance of music as a coping mechanism, how the United States’ university…
Dennis Meadows: “Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In”
On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Systems Management and author, Dennis Meadows.
Meadows revisits Limits to Growth 50 years after it was published. Looking back, how does Meadows v…
Rex Weyler: "Crisis in the Ecology Movement"
On this episode, we meet with ecologist, writer, and Greenpeace cofounder, Rex Weyler.
Weyler explains how the ecology movement was hijacked by the environmental movement. How is climate change one o…
Are Americans Willing to Risk Nuclear War? | Frankly #2
An important dialogue with Chuck Watson on:
1) Why the U.S. public is naïve about what nuclear war means
2) The mechanics on how nuclear war with Russia could actually happen
3) How bad would nuclear…
Nora Bateson: "Complexity Between The Lines"
On this episode, we meet with award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute, Nora Bateson.
Nora brings us beyond the descriptions of the physical sci…
What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly #1
In addition to regular Wednesday longform podcasts, this video is #1 of new series of short takes, "Frankly" which are framings and context on current world events. Today, I riff on longer term impli…
The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview
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Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”
On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford University and author of The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich.
Ehrlich discusses what has happened with the human pop…
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?”
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what…
Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperati…
Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview
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Herman Daly: "Toward an Ecological Economics”
On this episode, we meet with ecological economist and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, Herman Daly.
Daly discusses the biophysical underpinnings of human economies, and how a social…
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness”
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In the first of a five-part series, Nate and Daniel outline the macro risks and pathways for civiliza…
Chuck Watson: “From MAD to NUTS: Risk, Nukes, & Climate Change”
On this episode we meet with risk expert and consultant, Chuck Watson.
Watson analyzes the types of risk we face in the modern world - from climate change to nuclear arms - and how the decisions of …
Arthur Berman: “Oil: It Was The Best of Fuels, It Was The Worst of Fuels”
On this episode we meet with petroleum geologist and expert in U.S. shale, Arthur Berman.
In the discussion, Berman explains oil from the ground-up. What is oil? How is oil formed? How did we become …
Dr. Shanna Swan: “Sperm and Our Future”
On this episode we meet with one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, Dr. Shanna Swan.
Dr. Swan discusses how chemicals in our environment threaten human hormones, m…
Richard Gephardt: "Democracy: Old School vs New Reality"
On this episode we welcome the Honorable Richard A. Gephardt to explore the challenges and opportunities present in our modern democracy.
In his first-ever podcast appearance, Leader Gephardt details…
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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where w…