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NATE HAGENS Whether you call it the metacrisis, the polycrisis, or the human predicament, the challenges we face are novel—in scope, in number, and in nature To understand where we’re headed requires a systems lens that integrates as much of what we know as possible Read the overview here Home The Story Explore About Contact
About - NATE HAGENS Nate Hagens is the Executive Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy Our Future (ISEOF) Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles roadmaps for understanding how human societies might adapt to lower-throughput lifestyles
Explore - NATE HAGENS The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament through conversations with scientists, leaders, activists, thinkers, and doers
Energy - NATE HAGENS Energy is the currency of life All organisms invest energy to gain more energy in return Likewise, every single good in the world economy requires energy at each step of the economic process—to develop, mine, assemble, refine, deliver, maintain, repair, and dispose of
Systems — NATE HAGENS From Silos to Systems Humans have a propensity for one-thing-at-a-time, straight-line thinking But the world is made up of more than just isolated data points; it’s made of dynamic, complex, and interactive systems In other words, we can be prone to blind spots
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Ecology — NATE HAGENS Humans have come of age in a time of relative climatic stability—temperate and regular seasons, nutrient dense soil, predictable weather patterns, stable ocean patterns, and an amazing array of biodiversity Yet our actions threaten this stability from all sides
Economics — NATE HAGENS The global human economy uses the equivalent of ~100 billion barrels of oil (in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas) every year That’s the equivalent of ~400 billion human workers, whose labor is added to the five billion actual human workers on Earth
Behavior — NATE HAGENS Homo sapiens: wise man Human behavior is a complex field of study, often proving unpredictable and contentious Yet we can garner patterns based on evolutionary psychology and understand some of the fundamentals that shape the way we behave