The Next Generation's Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable #9
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on May 8th, 2024)
Show Summary:
As the human predicament continues to accelerate, the conversations regarding the future are still dominated by older generations - yet it is their younger successors who will face the brunt of these issues throughout their lives. Today's Reality Roundtable with Priscilla Trịnh, James Branagan, and Natasha Linhart, focuses on Generation Z's perspective of the metacrisis, how learning the reality of the human predicament has affected their worldview, and what they see as viable future paths for themselves and the world. How might we approach intergenerational relationships to encourage the transfer of knowledge in both directions, without blame or resentment? What are the unique challenges that young people face when addressing the layers of complexity and risk in the world, and thinking about how to respond? Could fostering community, empathy, and personal responsibility act as a bridge across generational divides, steering us towards a more unified and compassionate future?
About Priscilla Trịnh:
Priscilla Trịnh currently serves as Director of Communications at the Post Growth Institute and co-coordinator of the Minnesota Youth Institute. She is also the creator of the #postgrowth jobs board and a founding member of The Overstory Alliance. Additionally, Priscilla is an editor at the Blue Marble Review, and contributor to the Minnesota Women's Press. Priscilla holds a B.S. in Sustainable Systems Management and resides on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ lands (Minnesota, USA) and when not working, can be found near a body of water or in the kitchen.
About James Branagan:
James Branagan is a content creator and video editor, posting content on slow living and philosophy from his channel, The New Naturalist. At a young age, he became disillusioned with many different components of society, becoming fascinated by the prospect of humans figuring out how to live in an ecologically compatible way. He's committed to the task of addressing some of the many facets of Our Human Predicament, particularly education and food production systems.
About Natasha Linhart:
Natasha Linhart graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2023 with a degree in BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics with a focus in Economics and Business, and electives in Degrowth and Critical Theory. For the last year, she has been working as a Research Associate with the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future. Natasha is also a passionate educator, founding her own tutoring company with a holistic approach to high-school education (IBCompanions).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Great Simplification. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.3 | On this show, we describe how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit together and what it might mean for our future. |
| 0:15.2 | By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play emergent roles in the |
| 0:22.7 | coming Great Simplification. |
| 0:27.4 | Today, I am joined by three humans in their early 20s who have found themselves immersed |
| 0:33.3 | in the work and scholarship surrounding the great simplification. |
| 0:38.3 | As you might be aware, the viewers of this channel and this content in the world tend to skew older. |
| 0:45.3 | But it's my belief that bringing young voices to the table, getting their perspectives on the future, |
| 0:51.3 | platforming their ideas is essential for us to navigate the coming |
| 0:56.9 | decades, especially those young humans who have a systems understanding of the complexity and |
| 1:04.3 | the risk that we face. |
| 1:06.1 | As such, this reality roundtable is focused on the perspectives of youth today, how they feel about |
| 1:12.0 | the current state of the world, what their hopes are for the future, what their ideas are |
| 1:17.2 | for the future of society. Joining me today are Priscilla Trin, who currently serves as the |
| 1:23.9 | Director of Communications at the Post Growth Institute and co-coordinator of the Minnesota |
| 1:29.1 | Youth Institute. She's the creator of the Post Growth Jobs Board, editor at the Blue Marble |
| 1:35.0 | Review, and contributor to the Minnesota Women's Press. Also joining me is James Brannigan, |
| 1:42.6 | a writer, philosopher, and content creator with a YouTube channel |
| 1:46.2 | of his own. James is committed to the task of addressing some of the many facets of the |
| 1:50.8 | human predicament with education and food production systems being two of the more appealing |
| 1:55.9 | ones for him. He is Irish and currently lives in Spain. Last but not least is Natasha Linhart, who is a recent graduate of the University of Amsterdam with degrees in economics and business and electives in degrowth and critical theory. |
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