The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

(Recorded August 11, 2024)

The content of The Great Simplification (on Youtube and in real life) can be complex, nuanced and multi-faceted. In today’s Frankly, Nate offers reflections on a selection …

(Conversation recorded on July 25th, 2024)  

Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern.…

(Recorded August 5 2024)

As a problem-solving species, technology is an embedded part of the human experience – we assess, innovate, invent and adapt. But as we move out of the anomalous era we have …

(Conversation recorded on June 25th, 2024)  

Although artificial intelligence tends to dominate conversations about solving our most daunting global challenges, we may actually find some of the most …

(Recorded July 23 2024)

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In this week’s Frankly, (coincidentally released the day after Earth Overshoot Day), Nate breaks down seven factors contributing to humanity’s increasing overshoo…

(Conversation recorded on June 19th, 2024)  

While the mainstream conversation about our planet’s future is heavily dominated by the topic of climate change, there are other systems wh…

(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024)  

There’s a growing understanding of the need for biodiversity across ecosystems for a healthy and resilient biosphere. What if we applied th…

Recorded July 23 2024

In this week’s Frankly, Nate addresses the common desire for solutions to the human predicament - and why the championing of “solutions” is less clear-cut than we might percei…

(Conversation recorded on June 12th, 2024)  

As we move through difficult cultural transitions and rethink our governance systems, it will be critical that we listen to voices that are…

Recorded July 16 2024

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Following the attempted assassination of former United States President Donald J. Trump, Nate reflects on the dysfunctional social dynamics which have brought ma…

(Conversation recorded on June 27th, 2024)   

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a break-neck pace. Accompanying this is an almost frenzied optimism that AI will fix our mos…

(Recorded July 8 2024)

There are many so-called ‘solutions’ out there that, upon first glance, seem like great ideas - yet when we look beyond the narrow scope of the immediate benefits, we discover …

(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024)  

If plants are considered the lungs of the Earth, cycling CO2 into oxygen for animals to breathe, then animals act as the heart and arteries…

(Conversation recorded on May 16th, 2024)  

At the intersection between science and spirituality lies some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves about the future - the an…

In this week’s Frankly, Nate shares twenty different things to expect in the future, some which will be extremely difficult to influence but others which are in our control to change.  From the forec…

(Conversation recorded on April 24th, 2024)  

Engaging with the human predicament requires new ways of understanding the world - novel perspectives that are rooted in a more holistic a…

(Conversation recorded on May 1st, 2024)  

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Music has been an integral part of the human experience for thousands of years, and continues to embody a unique aspect of culture across the …

(Conversation recorded on May 7th, 2024)  

In contrast to ‘The Great Simplification’, some might call the events of the last few hundred years a ‘Great Complexification’ in terms of re…

(Conversation recorded on May 8th, 2024)  

As the human predicament continues to accelerate, the conversations regarding the future are still dominated by older generations - yet it is…

(Conversation recorded on May 5th, 2024)  

In this episode, Nate welcomes back Daniel Schmachtenberger to unpack a new paper, which he co-authored, entitled Development in Progress, an…