FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification | Frankly #5
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this segment of Frankly, Nate's former student Lizzy curates and asks some of the most frequently asked questions sent in by listeners during The Great Simplification episodes 1-25. How should we be educating people on energy? What types of fossil alternatives are really feasible? Is a climate disaster the most pertinent and existential risk that we face? Nate gives his answers to these questions, and more. (A trial format for an AMA or live broadcast in future?)
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| 0:00.0 | So here's what the plan is today. |
| 0:02.2 | We have just completed our 25th episode of the Great Simplification. |
| 0:08.4 | And we kind of wanted to level set what we've learned, questions from our listeners, |
| 0:15.7 | both in our inbox and on the Facebook group, The Great Simplification, and on the YouTube, and you, |
| 0:24.8 | my former student, and our newest hire at Energy in Our Future, and the curator of this |
| 0:32.5 | show, I thought it would be good for you to tabulate those questions and interview me, as it were. |
| 0:42.9 | So that is the plan, Lizzie. |
| 0:47.0 | So I'm handing the mic to you. |
| 0:50.0 | All right. |
| 0:51.5 | So to start off, just for, I guess, any new listeners or people who may still be |
| 0:56.4 | unclear, you have three terms or vocab words that you frequently used being energy blind, |
| 1:04.0 | the superorganism, and the great implication. And I was hoping you could maybe just give us a |
| 1:09.9 | quick rundown on all three of them, what they mean to you. |
| 1:14.0 | Yes, we are energy blind as a culture. |
| 1:16.7 | We just swim in energy like a fish swims in water. |
| 1:20.5 | And we are oblivious to how massively it underpins our society and our expectations and our institutions and our future |
| 1:30.5 | lifestyles. |
| 1:31.8 | The Great Simplification is over multiple timelines. |
| 1:40.3 | We have just experienced two centuries of a great complexification. |
| 1:44.5 | We have a podcast upcoming with Joseph Tainter who wrote a book about the collapse of complex societies that are based on problem solvings adding more energy. |
| 1:57.9 | And now we're going to be faced with problems. |
| 2:00.6 | And we won't have, it's not that we're running out of energy. And now we're going to be faced with problems and we won't have, it's not |
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