The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Hosted by Nate Hagens · Nate Hagens
4.8from 472 ratings
- 427
- Episodes
- 258
- Transcribed
- 472
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 10M
- YouTube views
About The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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.
- Publisher
- Nate Hagens
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Jan 2022
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
258 of 427 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Real Work: Four Kinds of Work for a Less Catastrophic Future | Frankly 159
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind | Frankly 158
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The Real Work: Four Kinds of Work for a Less Catastrophic Future | Frankly 159
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We are a social species, an apex predator that spread out across the world. And once hierarchy and surplus became prominent, that snowballed. And we started to mine historic caches of oil and gas and coal and non-renewable minerals at high quality, high quantity and scale. And all these combined with machines turbocharged our global economies, our expectations, our civilizational complexity. But now we are reaching a phase shift in that story and there is an economic and financial cul-de-sac ahead of us, where our paper and digital claims are starting to meaningfully exceed our biophysical and ecological means. […]
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- Sarah Wilson
- Roman Yampolskiy
- Charles Eisenstein
- Greg Elliott
- Ed Conway
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- YouTube views
- 10,144,049
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 472 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens?
Nate Hagens host the show. Published by Nate Hagens.
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