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Systemic Themes for 2024

December 19, 2023

Recorded December 17 2023

Description

In this final Frankly of 2023, Nate outlines some global themes that are worth keeping an eye on in 2024. From climate change to domestic and global politics to an unstable financial system, world events continue to converge. How will the social fabric of our society respond as changes to our current way of life continue to grow? How do these seemingly isolated events interconnect and enhance each other? How will governments, businesses, and individuals respond to these circumstances as more people are propelled from the lives we’ve become used to and into an unfolding Great Simplification?

Show Notes

02:47 – Leon Simons, Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change

03:14 – James Hansen

05:13 – Cognitive Dissonance

07:22 – Panama Canal Drought

07:46 – Suez Canal Events

09:15 – Six Continent Supply Chain

09:45 – Supernormal Stimuli

10:37 – Nate on AI

11:21 – 41% of household are ALICE

13:36 – Financial Policies from the Recession that are still in place, rising national debt levels, Bank of Japan buying its own debt

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the 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. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.