A State of the World Address: The Climate Speech We'll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160
On the heels of Climate Week, Nate poses a thought experiment: What would a world leader's speech sound like if the difficult truths underpinning global heating – which are politically unsayable due t...
25 Syys 15min
The Escalation Trap: Is America's Strategy in Iran Backfiring?
The United States, a global superpower for the last several decades, is now locked into a battle for control over the region with the bulk of the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves. Despite U.S. m...
23 Syys 1h 6min
The Real Work: Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159
This week, Nate zooms out from recent headlines about climbing diesel prices, a thinning U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and inflationary bond markets to ask the deeper question: what is the real wo...
18 Syys 33min
Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson
For years, the climate movement ran on the promise that, if we all rally hard enough, we could have it all: continue with our current system and save the planet. Yet the events of the past few decades...
16 Syys 1h 38min
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind | Frankly 158
This week's Frankly begins with a deceptively simple question Nate was asked in conversation: what would change his mind about The Great Simplification thesis? Nate uses the question as a jumping-off ...
11 Syys 18min
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy
The world's leading AI companies tell us that superintelligence has a strong chance of leading to human extinction, while also promising that they will be able to control it, offering unlimited power ...
9 Syys 53min
Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System | Frankly 157
This week's Frankly builds on Nate's recent conversation with systems theorist Greg Elliott, who came on the platform to discuss why our institutions themselves have become psychopathic and how that a...
4 Syys 38min
The Collapse of Our Mythology: Can Humanity Choose What's Next? with Charles Eisenstein
In this episode, Nate welcomes author and philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, for a long-requested conversation on the mythologies underneath civilization. For over two decades, Charles has argued that t...
2 Syys 1h 38min
