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Nate Silver calls his friend Nora Bateson, who is in Sweden where electricity prices are 30 to 40 times higher than they've been in the recent past. "It's kind of a big deal and maybe a dress rehearsal for what's coming to some other places," she says. It gets dark now by 2.30 in the afternoon; you're really up there as far north as the Yukon territories in Canada. And it's also dark, darker than in summer by far.

Winter has come - and for some people it’s colder and more expensive than the recent past. This week Nate reconnects with Nora Bateson to discuss how she and others living in Sweden are responding to the phenomenal spike in their electricity costs, which are currently 35-40x higher than this time last year. What steps are people taking in their own homes to stay warm and reduce energy use, and what tools and support is the government providing its citizens? Is there any single event or person to blame for the drastic increase in energy costs or is the root cause broad and deep within the systems we have created? What can we learn from this dress rehearsal as we anticipate and prepare for The Great Simplification?

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