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Nate Hagens Keynote Address, 2019 Resilience Gathering

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Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society and currently teaches a systems synthesis Honors seminar at the University of Minnesota ‘Reality 101 – A Survey of the Human Predicament’ Nate is on the Boards of Post Carbon Institute, Bottleneck Foundation, IIER and Institute for the Study of Energy […]

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The Resilience Gathering

The New School at Commonweal hosted The Resilience Gathering, including keynote speaker Nate Hagens.

We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in a discussion on resilience and civilizational collapse.

From Nate Hagens: the logic in this talk is documented in this academic paper

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