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Introduction
The Great Simplification is a sensemaking platform that faces the world’s complexities with curiosity and honesty. We don’t offer false hope or easy answers. Instead, we provide the insights needed to understand the systems at play, giving you the tools to make informed choices and navigate uncertainty. We believe real change comes when people are equipped with knowledge and can engage at various scales, even when the answers aren’t clear. We don’t promise certainty, but empower you to respond with confidence, knowing that moving forward starts with facing tough truths and asking the right questions.
Podcast
Sunil Amrith
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot?With Sunil Amrith
The Great SimplificationEp 192Watch nowTaylor Guthrie
How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?: The Science Behind Identity, Purpose, and Motivation
How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?With Taylor Guthrie
The Great SimplificationEp 191Watch nowStephen Jenkinson
The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully
The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving WellWith Stephen Jenkinson
The Great SimplificationEp 190Watch nowOliver Milman
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth
The Silent CollapseWith Oliver Milman
The Great SimplificationEp 189Watch nowLyn Alden
Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective
Nothing Can Stop This TrainWith Lyn Alden
The Great SimplificationEp 188Watch nowNate Hagens
Towards Individual Wisdom and Restraint
Towards Individual Wisdom & RestraintWith Nate Hagens
The Great SimplificationEp 187Watch nowThat’s very understandable because with left hemisphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher
What we’re seeing is probably the largest mass movement of marine life, at least in the last 10,000 years, towards the poles. Malin Pinsky Associate Professor
The worst thing you can do to people is make them feel that whatever they do, it doesn’t matter. What we call in psychology “helplessness” — or even stronger, learned helplessness. Maren Urner Professor, Sustainable Transformation
We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Executive Director ISEOF
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2022 Podcast Debuted
300 Hours of Content
#1 Rated globally in Earth Sciences
Our Host
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. In conversation with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF explores how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.
Resources
Rooted in science and systems thinking, we offer more than surface-level information.
Publication
Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism
Rooted in science and systems thinking, we offer more than surface-level information
Short course
Human Predicament
Rooted in science and systems thinking, we offer more than surface-level information
Presentation
Earth and Humanity:
Myth and Reality
Rooted in science and systems thinking, we offer more than surface-level information
Institute
The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future (ISEOF) is dedicated to exploring the intricate relationships between energy, human behavior, economics, and the environment. ISEOF emphasizes the pivotal role of energy in shaping human systems and the natural world, highlighting how fossil hydrocarbons like coal, oil, and natural gas have become integral to modern society.
