The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Dr. Simon Michaux: “Minerals and Materials Blindness"”

May 18, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How Tight Is the Link Between Energy and GDP?
02:24 • 3min
3
What Is Your Favorite Mineral Trick?
05:35 • 2min
4
Minerals Are Finite
07:56 • 2min
5
What Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
09:46 • 4min
6
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Giga Famine
13:30 • 2min
7
Is This Technology Scalable and Affordable?
15:32 • 2min
8
Nuclear Power Plants
17:56 • 2min
9
Is There a Constraint?
19:37 • 2min
10
How Much of Our Current Resources Are Recycled?
21:37 • 2min
11
The Circular Economy
23:57 • 3min
12
Is the Ultimate Role of Quantitative Easing?
26:49 • 3min
13
Are You in a Nit Position Atis Better?
29:41 • 2min
14
Nuclear Power
32:02 • 2min
15
Energy Depletion
34:01 • 3min
16
Do They Just Extrapolate a 500 % Increase in Copper Prices?
37:21 • 2min
17
Is There a Right Answer to the Wrong Question?
39:00 • 5min
18
Is There a Mordor Economy?
44:20 • 2min
19
Are We Going to a 100 % Renewable Economy?
45:53 • 3min
20
What Powers Our Economy?
49:16 • 2min
21
Are We Going to Face Issues on the Material Side?
51:01 • 3min
22
Is There a Future for Mining?
53:42 • 4min
23
Minerals - Are We Having a Mineral Crisis?
57:12 • 2min
24
Are We Ready for a Lower Throughput Society?
59:22 • 3min
25
The Phosphate Rock Problem
01:02:16 • 2min
26
The Solution Is to Go Organic
01:04:18 • 2min
27
Is the Future Breaking Into Paradimes?
01:06:18 • 4min
28
What Kind of Advice Would You Give to Young Humans?
01:10:24 • 2min
29
What Do You Care Most About in the World?
01:12:44 • 2min
30
Are You Most Angry About the Environment?
01:14:31 • 3min
31
The Great Simplification Podcast
01:17:15 • 2min