Here is a great story about Nate Hagens...
"When it comes to locating and articulating the challenges facing humanity, Hagens is one of the world’s leading thinkers - but before that, he was a money man.
Motivated by the desire for a fancy car and a big apartment, Hagens went into finance. He graduated with an MBA with Honours from the University of Chicago and then went on to work on Wall St. at Salomon Brothers before taking on his own clients.
Managing the money of wealthy individuals led Hagens to an epiphany that would change the course of his life.
For the two years that he was in business school, he hadn’t heard the word ‘energy’ uttered once.
But when Hagens began trading oil futures for one of his wealthy clients, his research led him to a chilling realisation: oil - which he now describes as the haemoglobin of the modern global economy - was a finite and dwindling resource, and the era of the ‘carbon pulse’ might soon be over.
The awakening led him to close his business, give all of his clients’ money back and hike around North America for a year with his golden retriever and backpack full of books about ecology, neuroscience and systems thinking.
Hagens went on to do a PhD in ecological economics in 2005 and became the Editor of The Oil Drum. He now dedicates his life to exploring the worlds of systems thinking, neuroscience, energy and financial systems, climate change and biodiversity and building a tribe of ‘pro-future’ thinkers."Ref: Nate Hagens on the Dangers of Our Net Zero Obsession,
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. He 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.
He’s created an animated video series about our collective predicament, hosts The Great Simplification podcast, is the Director of The Institute of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), and is a regular keynote speaker at conferences around the world.
He is a superb communicator in...... and above all, cares deeply.
Our system - and the components, processes and interactions that comprise it - is incredibly complex and with these interviews Nate aims to expand the number of people making sense of our reality.
Through his excellent YouTube podcast series in The Great Simplification Nate interviews contemporary luminaries such as
....and many more.
It is a smorgasbord of fascinating interviews most relevant to explaining the realities of these times and some solutions.
I would recommend anyone to go to the animated series for an excellent overview of the status quo and how we got there. Conversation topics span
FRANKLY is a series of [frank] video podcasts by Nate to ‘simplify’ and decode the ‘great’ issues of our time.
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