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Systemic Themes for 2024

By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification

December 19, 2023

Ship passing through Panama Canal

Recorded December 17 2023

Description

In this final Frankly of 2023, Nate outlines some global themes that are worth keeping an eye on in 2024. From climate change to domestic and global politics to an unstable financial system, world events continue to converge. How will the social fabric of our society respond as changes to our current way of life continue to grow? How do these seemingly isolated events interconnect and enhance each other? How will governments, businesses, and individuals respond to these circumstances as more people are propelled from the lives we’ve become used to and into an unfolding Great Simplification?

Show Notes

02:47 – Leon Simons, Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change

03:14 – James Hansen

05:13 – Cognitive Dissonance

07:22 – Panama Canal Drought

07:46 – Suez Canal Events

09:15 – Six Continent Supply Chain

09:45 – Supernormal Stimuli

10:37 – Nate on AI

11:21 – 41% of household are ALICE

13:36 – Financial Policies from the Recession that are still in place, rising national debt levels, Bank of Japan buying its own debt

Teaser image credit: Roll-on/roll-off ships, such as this one at Miraflores locks, are among the largest ships to pass through the canal. By Dozenist – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=183148
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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