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 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.
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