You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins.

That's me.

On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society.

Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals.

In the future, I imagine having only or at least primarily guests on this program who are

working on responses and solutions to the coming great simplification.

But for now, I'm still trying to comprehensively connect the dots, how our energy, money,

ecological situation fits together and will change everything in the future.

But today's episode is about responses, specifically the importance of networks.

Today I welcome Marty Kearns, a civic organizer and networking specialist to the show.

Marty and I discuss why both networks and communities will be critical to the coming challenges we face.

How will the social ties we form now influence the outcome of power, peace, and new social organization?

How can we organize ourselves in order to best meet the future that is coming, which no individual can face on their own?

Please welcome the director of net-centric campaigns, Marty Kearns.

Thank you.

Good to see you, Nate.

So let me get right into it, Marty.

Kind of the end goal of the work that my organization and this podcast are

doing ahead of the great simplification is to build networks of reality aware pro-social humans

to avert and even better steer humanity away from the default paths that my analysis kind of projects in coming decades,

because I think it's going to be necessary.

But your work takes this end goal that I foresee as the actual starting point,

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