Act: Inspiration

The Human Predicament

By Nate Hagens, originally published by Resilience.org

July 9, 2019

We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? This is Nate Hagens’ keynote address discussing the issues from The Resilience Gathering 2019.

Co-presented with: Commonweal Resilience Project; Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere; The Fan Initiative; Post Carbon Institute.

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

Tags: building resilient societies

facing a storm

What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

This week’s Frankly marks a turning point in the work of The Great Simplification. Having spent twenty years articulating the more-than-human predicament, Nate shifts from diagnosis to direction as current events – including conflict in the Strait of Hormuz – accelerate the timeline. Today Nate shares a first-pass framework for action and response that’s organized around what to do now, which could be applied to various places and at multiple scales.

March 24, 2026

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Entropia and the Disintegration of Empire

By Samuel Alexander, Resilience.org

As the current situation (March 2026) around the Strait of Hormuz continues to destabilise the global economy, it is timely to return to Alexander’s analysis outlining ‘the Disintegration of Empire’ (being Chapter Two of Entropia).

March 23, 2026

Great Depression sculpture (man sitting listening to radio).

Is the complacency in global financial markets warranted?

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Financial markets so far have reflected the belief that the Iran war will be over soon and that commerce will return to normal. I explain why I think this belief is unwarranted and why President Trump’s latest announcement regarding bombing Iran’s power plants is economic suicide.

March 22, 2026