The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer
86 hours 36 mins; April 01, 2026
Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133
12 mins; March 27, 2026
Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris
110 hours 40 mins; March 25, 2026
What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132
53 mins; March 20, 2026
The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 23
79 hours 4 mins; March 18, 2026
Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times: Iran Effects, Local Preparedness, and End of Empire?
14 mins; March 13, 2026
Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Could Change Our Global Crises with Christine Webb
78 hours 17 mins; March 11, 2026
Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure | Frankly 130
27 mins; March 10, 2026
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129
26 mins; March 06, 2026
Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft with Michael Every & Craig Tindale | RR 22
95 hours 30 mins; March 04, 2026
Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128
23 mins; February 27, 2026
How to Inoculate Against Misinformation: Breaking Down Misleading Arguments & Why Science Communication Fails with John Cook
83 hours 4 mins; February 25, 2026
Wide Boundary News 2/23/26: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge
18 mins; February 23, 2026
Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers | Frankly 126
40 mins; February 20, 2026
The Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jason Bradford
83 hours 51 mins; February 18, 2026
Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times | Frankly 125
18 mins; February 13, 2026
The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen
69 hours 32 mins; February 11, 2026
Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks
14 mins; February 09, 2026
The Consumption Pyramid
22 mins; February 06, 2026
How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe's Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics
76 hours 3 mins; February 04, 2026
A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Considerations on AI
31 mins; February 02, 2026
Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase Shift Cometh
31 mins; January 30, 2026
The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida
82 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2026
The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120
20 mins; January 23, 2026
Arms Race or the Human Race? Governance in the Age of AI, Nuclear Threats, and Geopolitical Brinkmanship | RR 21
87 hours 42 mins; January 21, 2026
Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve | Frankly 119
28 mins; January 16, 2026
Why the West Can't Defend Itself: How Material Scarcity Is Reshaping Global Power with Craig Tindale
101 hours 36 mins; January 14, 2026
The Things We Take for Granted | Frankly 118
22 mins; January 09, 2026
How We've 'Drugified' Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age with Anna Lembke
96 hours 56 mins; January 07, 2026
Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?
30 mins; December 19, 2025
End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
27 mins; December 17, 2025
Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116
23 mins; December 12, 2025
Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart
66 hours 57 mins; December 10, 2025
Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115
26 mins; December 05, 2025
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares
100 hours 55 mins; December 03, 2025
Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater
93 hours 51 mins; November 24, 2025
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
40 mins; November 22, 2025
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
40 mins; November 21, 2025
Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
82 hours 5 mins; November 19, 2025
11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113
37 mins; November 14, 2025
Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson
81 hours 43 mins; November 12, 2025
Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20
113 hours 14 mins; November 05, 2025
The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
22 mins; October 31, 2025
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon
106 hours 50 mins; October 29, 2025
The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say
26 mins; October 24, 2025
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
87 hours 43 mins; October 22, 2025
What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism
17 mins; October 17, 2025
Will Coral Reefs Be Gone by 2050? How Bleaching, Acidification, and Ocean Heating are Killing Coral Reefs with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
90 hours 1 min; October 15, 2025
Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If The Grid Fails with Meredith Angwin
84 hours 58 mins; October 08, 2025
Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries
21 mins; October 03, 2025
Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman
75 hours 43 mins; October 01, 2025
The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think
22 mins; September 26, 2025
The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
135 hours 58 mins; September 24, 2025
Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
84 hours 5 mins; September 17, 2025
This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107
16 mins; September 12, 2025
Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump with Anastassia Makarieva
121 hours 45 mins; September 10, 2025
10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106
15 mins; September 05, 2025
How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18
74 hours 35 mins; September 03, 2025
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith
80 hours 53 mins; August 27, 2025
Key Blindspots of the "Walrus" Movement | Frankly 105
38 mins; August 22, 2025
How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?: The Science Behind Identity, Purpose, and Motivation with Taylor Guthrie
92 hours 9 mins; August 20, 2025
Ducks and Blueberries: A Reflection on Price, Cost and Value
6 mins; August 15, 2025
The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully with Stephen Jenkinson
64 hours 26 mins; August 13, 2025
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth with Oliver Milman
79 hours 56 mins; August 06, 2025
The Ghost of Dopamine Past | Frankly 103
15 mins; August 01, 2025
Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden
99 hours 48 mins; July 30, 2025
Towards Individual Wisdom & Restraint
42 mins; July 25, 2025
The Packaging Revolution: Industry's Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter
99 hours 34 mins; July 23, 2025
This Week's Learnings: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102
15 mins; July 18, 2025
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley
95 hours 16 mins; July 16, 2025
What I Want to Want for the Future | Frankly 101
13 mins; July 11, 2025
Moving from Apathy to Action: How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17
78 hours 25 mins; July 09, 2025
Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100
34 mins; June 27, 2025
Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy
97 hours 47 mins; June 25, 2025
The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | Frankly 99
43 mins; June 20, 2025
The National Security Risks We're Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats with Rod Schoonover
59 mins; June 18, 2025
The Systems Science Behind Our Global Crises: How Energy Drives Economics, Ecology, and Our Future | The Great Simplification Movie
1 min; June 13, 2025
Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge
78 hours 34 mins; June 11, 2025
10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria | Frankly 98
20 mins; June 06, 2025
AI's Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations with Zak Stein
109 hours 55 mins; June 04, 2025
Why the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes | Frankly 97
14 mins; May 30, 2025
The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life with Malin Pinsky
65 hours 5 mins; May 28, 2025
The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96
13 mins; May 23, 2025
Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action with Andrew Millison
63 hours 14 mins; May 21, 2025
The Parent and the Pendulum | Frankly 95
14 mins; May 16, 2025
No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature with Thomas Crowther
71 hours 59 mins; May 14, 2025
Social Overshoot? Dunbar's Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs | Frankly 94
15 mins; May 09, 2025
Fragile Electric Grids: Did Renewables Cause the Blackout in Spain? with Pedro Prieto
57 mins; May 07, 2025
Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking? | Frankly 93
12 mins; May 02, 2025
Sobriété vs Poverty: Preparing for a New Cultural Paradigm with Jean-Marc Jancovici
71 hours 13 mins; April 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life? | Frankly 92
27 mins; April 25, 2025
The Neuroscience of Good Journalism: How Constructive Journalism Uses Information to Empower with Maren Urner
84 hours 4 mins; April 23, 2025
Unintended Consequences in a Complex World | Frankly 91
7 mins; April 18, 2025
Planetary Insights: How Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Earth's Predicament with Will Marshall
76 hours 24 mins; April 16, 2025
Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities
30 mins; April 11, 2025
Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler
72 hours 45 mins; April 09, 2025
Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can't, Won't and Might Happen | Frankly 90
20 mins; April 04, 2025
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins
72 hours 50 mins; April 02, 2025
Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond 'Big Tech' to Save Open Societies with Audrey Tang
84 hours 41 mins; March 26, 2025
The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers' Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War | Reality Roundtable #16
89 hours 51 mins; March 23, 2025