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.
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares
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2025-12-03
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Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater
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2025-11-24
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Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
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2025-11-22
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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
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2025-11-19
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11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113
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2025-11-14
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Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson
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2025-11-12
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Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20
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2025-11-05
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The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
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2025-10-31
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Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon
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2025-10-29
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The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say
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2025-10-24
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Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
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2025-10-22
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What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism
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2025-10-17
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Will Coral Reefs Be Gone by 2050? How Bleaching, Acidification, and Ocean Heating are Killing Coral Reefs with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
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2025-10-15
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Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If The Grid Fails with Meredith Angwin
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2025-10-08
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Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries
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2025-10-03
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Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman
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2025-10-01
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The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think
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2025-09-26
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The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
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2025-09-24
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Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
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2025-09-17
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This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107
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2025-09-12
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