Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the day-to-day reality of those struggling to achieve autonomous decision-making, while also engaging with the state where necessary, there is a constant interplay between doing, acting, being, dreaming, and relating … with the actors being not only humans but all of nature.
So the immediate need is for people to come together as citizens to defeat authoritarianism and secure protection for people and the planet while laying the foundation for the ecological civilization.
As was the case through most of human history, we must—in my view—just live and experience the world as it is in its staggering complexity, rather than thinking our way into how to live.
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Before launching Your Money or Your Life, I took an adult education course in marketing from a brassy red head who gave me clues. Will any of these success strategies work now? Let’s see. Warning. You may not like these seat of the pants lessons. They may not scratch the itch of fury. But I feel called to distill that lived wisdom… as a writer.
To undermine the Endangerment Finding is a breach of government responsibility, one that will not lead to an improved future for even special interests like energy producers and car companies.
Among a long list of lessons, Katrina taught us that climate migration is not a distant possibility, it’s already here. We were among the first in recent history to be displaced by a storm of its magnitude, but we absolutely will not be the last.
In this episode, Nate is joined by environmental and migration historian, Sunil Amrith, to explore the complex history of human movement – and what it reveals about the looming wave of climate-driven migration.
Every myth matters. Each one reveals how people once understood their place in the cosmos. Most have been lost, their meanings erased. The story of Marduk and Tiamat survives—and that alone makes it worth examining.
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What’s universal, what’s cultural, and what’s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?
In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate waste. How will humans in 2125 – if there are any of us left – judge the things everyone sees as normal today?
Humanity soon will be returning to low-power ways of organizing itself. And in our new age of tariff wars, the tide is already turning from global to regional in trade, investment, and politics. What has seemed impossible may soon become obviously necessary to larger numbers of people.
