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EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures

The Jim Rutt Show

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The Balance Between Reality Pessimism and Optimism

"I'm actually quite optimistic about the future, but that's because I have much reduced expectations relative to the consensus trance of society," he says. "We're going to have probably an earth-track future and we're going to need a lot more humans understanding the energy ecology human behavior nexus." The ultimate challenge of telling a story is there's a trade-off between being accurate and being helpful, author says.

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