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.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 21 hours 42 minutes
The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview
The second part of The Great Simplification Animated Series is now available! Visit http://thegreatsimplification.com to view now.
episode 9: 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 population situation in the decades since he...
episode 8: 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 happened in Earths history when ocean currents...
episode 7: 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 cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes...
Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview
The first part of The Great Simplification's animated series is now available! Visit thegreatsimplification.com to view now.
episode 6: 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 system that is more tethered to our ecological...
episode 5: 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 civilization to 'bend' and avoid 'breaking' in coming...
episode 4: 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 experts help us from plunging into the abyss....
episode 3: 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 dependent on fossil fuels? How much human labor is...
episode 2: 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, male sperm count, and ultimately, human...