Environment

Earth Day 2022: A Reading with Nate Hagens

By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification

May 3, 2022

Earth Day

Each year around April 20, I marshal the courage to proclaim my love and concern for animals and nature in lieu of conventional discourse about economic systems. A strange habit. This year’s contribution was an art project of sorts. With help from one of my former students, I give a quick overview of 80 concepts relevant to human (and animal) futures each under the umbrella of a Tarot Card. Despite all else going on, I hope you can watch and share this year’s Earth Day synthesis.

Thanks especially to Kristin Anton for her artwork and the following for their valuable input: Leslie Batt-Lutz, Elizabeth Sirianni, Jake Gold Productions, Joan Diamond, DJ White, Tristan Harris, Rex Weyler, Kyle Saunders, Zak Stein, Tad Patzek, Chuck Watson, Jamie Wheal.

For more information go to www.thegreatsimplification.com and energyandourfuture.org

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Executive Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF). Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles roadmaps for understanding how human societies might adapt to lower-throughput lifestyles.

Nate hosts the podcast The Great Simplification, where he has conversations with experts in energy, ecology, government, technology, and the economy to provide a systemic view of the world around us.

After ten years in finance, Nate left Wall Street to study the interrelationships between energy, ecology, and economics—and the implications for human futures. He was the Managing Editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most respected websites for analysis and discussion of global energy supplies and implications of the upcoming energy transition.

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