Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden
Money, debt, and finance shape the lives of everyone globally, including through the policies and actions of national central banks – yet even those who are well-versed in these subjects often miss the full scope of these intricate relationships. For the average person, headlines about mounting government debt and surging interest rates often feel like a confusing and concerning trend. What can we learn from historical cycles, global energy dynamics, and the differing fiscal strategies of nation...
Starvation In Gaza: Roots of The Genocide And Pathway To Stopping It
Israel’s forced starvation of the innocent Palestinian people of Gaza is nothing but pure Genocidal treachery, on a scale arguably the worst in world history… entirely U.S. enabled, U.S. weaponized, and U.S. insulated. Also complicit in weaponizing and insulating Israel’s heinous War Crimes are the U.K., going along with anything the U.S. does… and Germany, bowing to anything Israel does in forever apology for it’s WWII Holocaust upon the Jews, as Israel now commits it’s own genocidal atrocities...
Earth Day 2025: Towards Collective Wisdom and Restraint
In this Earth Day presentation, recorded earlier this year, Nate offers nine broad paths for individuals to cultivate resilience in an increasingly uncertain and unstable period of human history. From the intellectual & ecological to the spiritual & psychological, these ideas might be considered waypoints for navigating the human predicament, and - in aggregate - help build 'scout teams' of humans working on the upcoming cultural transition away from infinite material expansion. This is a comp...
It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore
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The Packaging Revolution: Industry’s Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter
Packaging is an unavoidable feature of modern life. It’s so embedded in our products and systems that even the most environmentally-minded consumers struggle to avoid it entirely. Yet packaging accounts for nearly half of all plastic waste, contributing to widespread ecological harm and growing threats to human health – highlighting the urgent need for an overhaul of packaging materials and industry practices. So how are some industry leaders reimagining materials, systems, and supply chains in ...
FUTURES Podcast Trailer
On this show we meet the scientists, technologists, artists and philosophers working to imagine the sorts of developments that might dramatically alter what it means to be human. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://sites.libsyn.com/230621/trailer
What I Learned This Week: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102
In this week’s Frankly, Nate shares a handful of things he’s learned in the past few days that have implications for the Great Simplification. Nate covers a wide range of topics in this edition, from the connections between corn sweat and wet bulb temperatures to a timeline of coral reef bleaching events. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/what-i-learned-this-week-corn-sweat-coral-bleaching-and-the-climate-credit-crunch-fra...
We’re Not Ready For Superintelligence
Where are the TZM chapters? This should be our moment to shine, to showcase a socioeconomic system where <span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span>automation</span> is integrated and where it’s okay we automate jobs. At least, that’s how it looks on paper of course 😉 Are we really just going to be passive? </span>
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley
Economic theory has come to wield outsized influence over our societal goals, decisions, and policies – often relying on models that claim to optimize how human systems function. Yet the outcomes of our modern economic structures tell a different story: accelerating ecological collapse, widening inequality, declining public health, and increasing social disconnection. What if the foundational principles of mainstream economics are actually built on false assumptions that obscure the realities of...
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