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.

Tim Watkins is a social scientist with a public policy background and he is an advocate

for mental health awareness.

Tim has written several books on topics ranging from how energy connects with money to managing

depression to explaining the predicament that Western culture faces.

Tim has his own blog, The Consciousness of Sheep, where I found him, where he discusses

energy, the environment, the economy, and society, and how each of these play a role in shaping

our future.

Tim has a brilliant mind with great insights in how energy impacts what the economy can and can't do,

and by extension, what options are available to us in the future. Today, we mostly took the

energy, money, economy risks as assumed and focused on the importance of maintaining

mental health during the coming unsettled times.

I enjoyed speaking with Tim and hope you learned something from our conversation.

Hello, Tim.

Hi, Nate.

Good to see you, sir.

How are things in the south of Wales today?

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