Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jason Bradford
With grocery prices skyrocketing and supply chain disruptions becoming more frequent, the average person has more and more incentive to get involved …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times | Frankly 125
This week's Frankly marks a new recurring segment on this platform where Nate poses questions about our shared future: Uncomfortable Questions in Uns…
2 months ago
The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is often seen as the problematic byproduct of modern lifestyles that threatens our planet's stability – at least within conversa…
2 months ago
Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks
This week's Frankly is another edition of Nate's Wide Boundary News series, where he invites listeners to view the constant churn of headlines throug…
2 months ago
The Consumption Pyramid
This week's Frankly unpacks humans' current identification with the label "consumer." Consumption is something much deeper and more nuanced than shop…
2 months, 1 week ago
How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe's Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics
Collapse has long been discussed in the public imagination as something that happens suddenly, immediately turning the world upside down. But history…
2 months, 1 week ago
A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Considerations on AI
Last week there was so much news Nate recorded two Franklies – this is the second of those, which shares his reflections on a recent seminal essay po…
2 months, 1 week ago
Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase Shift Cometh
This week's Frankly inaugurates a new category for videos on The Great Simplification platform, Wide Boundary News, in which Nate invites listeners t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida
For many people reading this, the crises we discuss on this podcast – from ecological instability to financial collapse – often feel like a distant p…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120
In this week's episode, Nate reflects on his experience with knee surgery and being a "creature in the machine" (the Superorganism). He touches on th…
2 months, 3 weeks ago