Nate Hagens is interviewed by Kate Raworth, reflecting on the past two years of podcasting and exploring fundamental concepts to better understand trends and challenges. Topics include energy blindness, the metacrisis, future challenges, the great simplification, resistance to combat climate change, bending the finance system, modern monetary theory, changes in education, and embracing change.

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future.Energy drives our entire world. It keeps our GDPs growing, our cars moving and our hospital's working. If there was a shortage of energy, life would change very dramatically. Nate has spent 20 years researching the state of our current energy reliance and creating an assessment and philosophy for the future.Expect to learn how energy is intrinsically linked to our economy, why solar and wind are not a solution, why the things that humans value needs to change if we want to continue flourishing, what would happen if the price of energy went up by even a small margin, the real reason that the USA has a ton of bases in the Middle East and much more...Extra Stuff:Check out Nate's website - https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcastEmail: https://chriswillx.com/contact/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim talks with Nate Hagens about his new book co-authored with DJ White, Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, volume 1... Jim talks with Nate Hagens about his new book co-authored with DJ White, Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, volume 1. They discuss Nate's Reality 101 course, the core fundamental drivers of our current situation, writing "through an alien lens," steering away from optimism and pessimism, the tradeoff between accuracy and helpfulness, telling the truth & letting the chips fall, the buildup of underground carbon, the carbon pulse, a bank account of ancient sunlight, invention of the Newcomen atmospheric engine, the Jevons paradox, exponential growth in a finite world, disliking the word "degrowth," how humanity became a heat engine, gene agendas, advertising as the most deleterious invention, fast fashion, hypernovelty, trophic pyramids, the sixth great extinction, building a post-carbon life, energy as the currency of life, energy return on investment, why we don't want free energy, thinking about the future probabilistically, predicting a drop in the resource economy, hitting the reset button on finance, consumer abundance as a peacock's tail, and much more. Episode Transcript Propaganda, by Edward L. Bernays The Century of the Self (documentary by Adam Curtis) Dr. Nate Hagens is the Executive Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Formerly in the finance industry at Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers, since 2003 Nate has shifted his focus to understanding the interrelationships between energy, environment, and finance and the implication this synthesis has for human futures. Nate hosts the podcast The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens, in which he has conversations with experts in energy, ecology, government, technology, and the economy to provide a systemic view of the world around us.

Every once in a while there is a podcast that fundamentally changes the way that I look at the world. This is one of those podcasts. I realized that I was blind to the very currency of life, technology and progress: Energy. And the cold carbon truth is that we are running out of it. What does that mean for us as a global society? Nate Hagens has dedicated his life to studying this dilemma, and he has determined that the most likely outcome is what he calls The Great Simplification. This is no doomsday prophecy. Our advances in technology (and energy consumption) have not made us any happier according to mental health metrics. Why would we think that EVEN MORE technology is going to work? Perhaps a return to simpler practices and local processes will be an unforeseen emotional boon. But there are immense structural challenges that need to be addressed in a timely manner to prevent famine, drought, and poverty. Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, professor, and host of The Great Simplification Podcast. He has spent decades grappling with the great issues of our time, and in this podcast we cover the gamut. Nate synthesizes human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment into a coherent story of humanity’s current predicament. This is a challenging reality to face, but face it we must if we’re going to continue to live on this planet. This podcast is for the bold, those of us with the courage in our hearts necessary to grapple with the meta-crisis and act in a way to shepherd humanity onto the correct course. Connect with Nate Hagens Website | https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/ YouTube | https://bit.ly/3BQVHz9 Listen to The Great Simplification Podcast Itunes | https://apple.co/3CijYj3 Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3UIwFut This episode is sponsored by: LETSGETCHECKED Go to our sponsor http://trylgc.com/aubreymarcus and use code AUBREYMARCUS for 25% off your at home test kit APOLLO NEURO Get $40 off the Apollo wearable by visiting  apolloneuro.com/aubrey ONNIT  Get 10% off all Onnit Products: https://bit.ly/3LMVArK To partner with the Aubrey Marcus Podcast Connect with Aubrey Website | https://www.aubreymarcus.com/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/aubreymarcus/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/aubreymarcus Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/AubreyMarcus/ YouTube | https://bit.ly/2DLctpk Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus Newsletter: https://www.aubreymarcus.com/pages/email

In this engaging discussion, Nate Hagens, a global leader in energy systems and director at the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, tackles critical issues around the sustainability of our economic models. Hagens argues that green growth is a myth and explores the shortcomings of electric vehicles. He emphasizes the imminent risks of energy depletion and the necessity for societal simplification. Drawing on updated predictions, he warns of potential collapse by 2040, while advocating for a reevaluation of our relationship with energy and our environment.