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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

431 episodesEN

Show overview

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 431 episodes, alongside 70 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 440 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 22 min and 1h 30m — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 85 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Nate Hagens.

Episodes
431
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
1h 12m
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.

Latest Episodes

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A World-Changing Event: We're Not Going Back to January 2026 with Art Berman

Oct 7, 20261h 15m

Climate Uncertainty: The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives? with Zeke Hausfather

Sep 30, 20261h 32m

A State of the World Address: The Climate Speech We'll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160

Sep 25, 202615 min

The Escalation Trap: Is America's Strategy in Iran Backfiring?

Sep 23, 20261h 6m

The Real Work: Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159

Sep 18, 202633 min

Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson

Sep 16, 20261h 38m

The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind | Frankly 158

Sep 11, 202618 min

Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy

Sep 9, 202653 min

Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System | Frankly 157

Sep 4, 202638 min

The Collapse of Our Mythology: Can Humanity Choose What's Next? with Charles Eisenstein

Sep 2, 20261h 38m

Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)

Aug 28, 202631 min

The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231

Aug 26, 20261h 41m

Our Best "Invention": What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156

Aug 21, 202618 min

Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127

Aug 19, 20261h 49m

The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155

Aug 14, 202629 min

An Ecological Psychology: Internal Family Systems for a Turbulent World with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek

Aug 12, 20261h 40m

Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future | Frankly 154

Aug 7, 202630 min

The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant

Aug 5, 20261h 24m

When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153

Jul 31, 202624 min

The End of Globalization: Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie

Jul 29, 20261h 28m
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