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Nate Hagens: Energy Blind
Nate Hagens: Energy Blind
Daneil Schmachtenberg: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05
Daneil Schmachtenberg: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05
Don’t blame capitalism. Capitalism itself isn’t “bad”; it’s the effects that are bad. — Nate Hagens
Don’t blame capitalism. Capitalism itself isn’t “bad”; it’s the effects that are bad. — Nate Hagens Capitalism has allowed us to throw a two-century party – We trashed the place, drank the booze, burned the furniture — It’s time to wake up, act like adults, and behave responsibly. — Nate Hagens “Here in America when bad […]
Seeing the Big Picture: Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture: Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens Understanding the critical connections between our values, our economy and our world Welcome to the era of generalists, of the big picture thinkers who translate concepts into action. These are the people who join the dots to get a better sense of how our world fits together—and how […]
The prolific, inimitable Nate Hagens strikes again: This time with a new book on the human predicament
The prolific, inimitable Nate Hagens strikes again: This time with a new book on the human predicament “This will be the century which tests the human potential for mediocrity against the human potential for greatness.” — … “Earth’s currently most successful large creature is now in a predicament; a predicament brought about by a compelling combination of […]
Myth #22: Nate Hagens discredits claim “We Can Always Get More Resources If We Have More Money”
Myth #22: Nate Hagens discredits claim “We Can Always Get More Resources If We Have More Money” “We can create money, but we cannot create energy, only extract what exists — FASTER.” “We can create money, but we cannot create energy, only extract what exists — FASTER. And importantly, when money is created the interest is […]
Myth #19: Nate Hagens dismisses the insistence we can achieve Net Zero!! (by 2050 or any date)
Myth #19: Nate Hagens dismisses the insistence we can achieve Net Zero!! (by 2050 or any date) “When people use the term “Net Zero” it’s mostly shorthand for maintaining economic growth while doing some magical technological salvation in the future.” — “There is an increasingly popular theme in climate change media called “Net Zero emissions.” The […]
Is the National Observer intentionally ignoring reports by/about leading climate scientists?
Is the National Observer intentionally ignoring reports by/about leading climate scientists? Why has Observer reporter not responded to my email promoting work of Dr. Nate Hagens? On May 31, I sent a polite email to National Observer reporter Chris Hatch in response to his open invitation to readers to share “comments or suggestions” related to his efforts as […]
More Myths – This Time With Some Reality
More Myths – This Time With Some Reality Nate Hagens recently produced a new video here regarding myths and reality and it is very well done. The video goes into precise detail about many core myths and beliefs, and I have the video queued up to the part about the myth of “technology solving it” for anyone who still thinks […]
Earth and Humanity
Earth and Humanity Every year, Nate Hagens produces a video for Earth Day. Nate is someone I cannot admire enough. These videos normally last about an hour, but this year one of his University colleagues told him it was about time he stopped pussy footing around and tell it like is. So this year’s effort […]
“In my analysis, I think we’re headed for a financial recalibration.” — Nate Hagens
“In my analysis, I think we’re headed for a financial recalibration.” — Nate Hagens We need to plan for a smaller economy, but decision makers see growing the economy as the solution. — BACKGROUND 1/ In my February 19, 2021 piece, I reposted a report co-authored by 17 scientists that documents, in considerable detail, the evidence […]
No Matter Who Wins
NO MATTER WHO WINS Modern elections—despite their social and political importance—have become more like sporting events than referendums around ideas. We so intensely identify with our partisan tribe, that we focus on the slogans, the rooting against the ‘other guy’ and other us-vs-them dynamics, and often lose sight of the issues, the context, and how […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism During Nate Hagens’ #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but more stochastic energy types. Ed. note: The […]
