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The Human Predicament in 22 Clips

January 2, 2024

Summary

Following up last week’s Frankly outlining systemic themes for 2024, this year-end special is a reflection on 2023 with a series of clips, which together highlight the increasingly challenging world of which we are a part. From global heating and financial turmoil to rising geopolitical tensions and disruptive technological breakthroughs, The Great Simplification has been host to a wide range of critical conversations with scientists, leaders, and thinkers to dig deep into the science and insights into the increasingly chaotic world around us. Though each podcast and guest is unique, viewing these clips together reveals why we must take a systems view in our response to the human predicament.

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00:56 – Jeremy Grantham – https://youtu.be/cTvN9iFJ0fY

03:08 – Jodi Archambault – https://youtu.be/J4Dhwta5R2Q

03:53 – Nick Haddad – https://youtu.be/_qzS5Nig4_w

04:59 – Lisi Krall – https://youtu.be/eQNI4bUv_Fs

05:42 – Josh Farley – https://youtu.be/EC11UQD9q3w

06:16 – Robert Sapolsky – https://youtu.be/xhobcj2K9v4

07:21 – Sian Sutherland – https://youtu.be/jTs6KejhSg4

08:07 – Daniel Schmachtenberger – https://youtu.be/_P8PLHvZygo

09:27 – Daniel Zetah – https://youtu.be/PtW_Fh9fViw

11:02 – Pella Thiel – https://youtu.be/NVeCw-Ljenk

12:14 – Chuck Watson – https://youtu.be/8T9vGNNdKKs

13:07 – Arthur Berman – https://youtu.be/qqTh2nBEcCs

13:56 – Vandana Shiva – https://youtu.be/lb2tJXopTJA

14:16 – John Kitzhaber – https://youtu.be/Z4cjl77rj78

15:00 – Peter Ward – https://youtu.be/tSgPQyq_jyE

16:49 – Robert Lustig – https://youtu.be/onVqjZOYlQs

17:35 – Luke Gromen – https://youtu.be/bIq0o40Jo80

18:27 – William Rees – https://youtu.be/LQTuDttP2Yg

18:58 – Kate Raworth – https://youtu.be/7h6X7WBANKY

20:07 – David Sloan Wilson – https://youtu.be/KbKymchp-54

21:17 – Iain McGilchrist – https://youtu.be/dogVQDydRGQ

22:26 – Nate Hagens – https://youtu.be/9Mgf7GyGPt4

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.