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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
(Recorded August 11, 2024)
The content of The Great Simplification (on Youtube and in real life) can be complex, nuanced and multi-faceted. In today's Frankly, Nate offers reflections on a selection of viewers' direct questions about the myriad topics covered on this channel.
The goal of this podcast is to integrate the head, the heart and the hands by building a generative conversation between many more humans. The learning process about upcoming constraints and opportunities will continue to be interactive and ongoing. By offering insightful responses to questions both personal and professional, this Frankly (and future AMAs) directly engages our online community to better understand the nuances of the reality we face and what might be some realistic pathways ahead.
What exactly is the relationship between energy and economic growth? What has Nate learned over the last 2.5 years of podcast recordings and what could be done differently? How might we better organize our infrastructure, communities and local politics to prepare for the upcoming Great Simplification? And of course, the question we've all been asking ourselves… How are Nate's ducks??
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Time for Ask Nate Anything. That would be me, Nate. I've wanted to do some live |
| 0:09.3 | Q&A things on YouTube, but I'm not sure that I have the ability to facilitate that. So I sent a |
| 0:16.6 | substack and ask people for what questions they have. We got over 100 questions on the substack, |
| 0:23.5 | the Discord, and via email. I'm just going to, not randomly, but I'm going to select a bunch of |
| 0:29.7 | them here. I don't even know how many I'll have time to get through. Maybe we can do this more |
| 0:33.5 | often. I'll preface it by saying, I have a lot to say. I have a lot of thoughts, but I'm no one's |
| 0:40.5 | guru, and I don't have answers to a lot of these things. From the start, I've tried to describe |
| 0:46.5 | the game board that we're a part of, and I'm more confident about how the different chess pieces as they were fit together and |
| 0:56.1 | the moves that are possible. |
| 0:57.6 | But as far as what moves to make, I'm no clearer on that that I was when I started this. |
| 1:04.9 | So here in no particular order are some questions. |
| 1:09.1 | I want to ask, NAEP claimed at one point that energy use is one of the |
| 1:13.1 | things most closely correlated to economic growth, but I've recently come across EPA figures |
| 1:18.8 | suggesting that gross U.S. power consumption has gone down over the last few decades. Some of this |
| 1:25.2 | could be correlated to offshoring or manufacturing, but I'm wondering |
| 1:28.3 | what figures are out there trying to get a realistic picture of this. Okay, so this is a complicated |
| 1:33.3 | thing. Let me try to simplify it. Power is electrical power, and that is around 20% of a global |
| 1:42.8 | energy use. The other 80% is things that aren't power, like heating and transportation, et cetera. |
| 1:52.0 | So also there are national and global figures. |
| 1:57.1 | So you're talking here about the United States. |
| 1:59.8 | Here's a graph showing U.S. power consumption |
| 2:02.4 | from 1950 to 2022. Our electric consumption did not go down the last couple decades, but it did |
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