— Posts feature insights from Nate Hagens on systems thinking, energy economics, and strategies for societal resilience and impactful action. —
Significant climate improvements over the next two decades are more likely to arise from curtailed economic expansion rather than technological advancements, a perspective that challenges conventional thinking. The contraction of industrial activity, driven by factors such as war, debt, and energy d
Nate Hagens posits that re-establishing individual agency is a fundamental prerequisite for navigating the complex 'meta-crisis' facing humanity. While not a singular solution, increased personal agency is presented as a catalyst that can shift the probabilities for future outcomes, fostering new co
Jason Bradford contends that transitioning from an academic, head-centric existence to hands-on farming profoundly reshaped his worldview, imbuing him with embodied knowledge that theoretical frameworks or artificial intelligence can never replicate. This sensory interaction with the environment, fr
After years of assuming that voting, technology deployment, and governance reform could redirect industrial civilisation's trajectory, Hagens now regards the system as too structurally committed to its current path for top-down intervention to matter much. His revised theory of change focuses instea
Intact old-growth forests are not simply carbon repositories — they are active systems that generate rainfall through what ecologists call the biotic pump, support food webs, and provide fire resilience that no plantation or managed stand can replicate. Healthy soils function as living infrastructur