Stories tagged with "Nate Hagens"

Umbrella View of Resource Depletion and Human Behaviour

Posted by Rembrandt on July 12, 2009 - 11:02am
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: alcatraz conference, cortisol, dopamine, finance, human behaviour, nate hagens, peak oil, resource depletion [list all tags]

This is a slide video of the presentation I asked Nate Hagens to give at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. It contains a concise summary of many issues related to depletion, energy supply, human behaviour and the financial system. More background material can be found in the articles by Nate Hagens linked below the fold. The presentation itself can be downloaded here: Umbrella View of Resource Depletion and Human Behaviour, PDF 148 slides, 8.7 MB.

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Nate Hagens on BBC Regarding Obama Energy Policy

Posted by Gail the Actuary on January 27, 2009 - 7:23pm
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: nate hagens [list all tags]

Nate was on BBC-World regarding Obama's energy policy yesterday (which was likely heard by millions). You can listen at this link. Nate is on, immediately after a recording of President Obama starting at about 2:25 into the show, and ending at about 5:53.

In the interview, Nate says what President Obama said was good, but it didn't go far enough. He eventually needs to get across the idea that we cannot continue to grow facing multiple resource constraints, and that that our current conspicuous consumption paradigm needs to be changed. He reiterated that energy is what we have to spend, not money.

Nate suggests we need people to demonstrate by example what changes are needed. The interviewer asks if that means celebrities should buy electric cars. Nate says they should go even further.

This is my recollection. Listen and find out what he really said!

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Nate's Reality Report Interview - Hurricanes, Financial Markets and Peak Oil

Posted by Gail the Actuary on September 15, 2008 - 10:16pm
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: hurricanes, jason bradford, nate hagens, original, peak oil, reality report [list all tags]

Last week, Nate Hagens was interviewed by Jason Bradford on the "Reality Report". The radio program is about 47 minutes long, and Nate's interview is the last 40% of it. A link to his interview can be found


here

The first part of the show is an interview with a woman who has been living without electric power since Hurricane Gustav hit. She talks about how the experience has changed her life, and about her thoughts regarding preparing for future energy shortages. The latter part of the show is an interview with Nate on various subjects related to hurricanes, the credit market, hedge funds, and peak oil. He talks a little about the Fannie and Freddie bailout, and about trying to change people's way of thinking about the future.

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Nate Hagens on "The Reality Report" with Jason Bradford at 12:10-1:00pm EDT on Energy, Weather, and Sasquatch Hunting

Posted by Prof. Goose on September 8, 2008 - 10:10am
Topic: Site news
Tags: gulf of mexico, hurricane ike, jason bradford, nate hagens [list all tags]

Noon EDT on http://www.kzyx.org. Have a listen!

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Supply and Demand on a Full Planet - ASPO VI Speech by Nate Hagens

Posted by Prof. Goose on August 26, 2008 - 10:30am
Topic: Sociology/Psychology
Tags: addiction, cognitive neuroscience, demand, ecological economics, energy properties, habituation, nate hagens, original, relative fitness [list all tags]

Next month is the ASPO conference in Sacramento CA. Nate Hagens will be one of the speakers in the plenary (as well as on the Sunday TOD breakout panels). Here is a video of the talk he gave last year at the international ASPO VI venue in Cork Ireland. The speech covered net energy, energy properties and externalities on the supply side and addiction, relative fitness and steep discount rates from an evolutionary perspective on the demand side. Here is a link to the slides themselves, (which aren't fully shown at times on the video).
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GPM Link Featuring Nate Hagens on "The Reality Report" with Jason Bradford along with Some Other Oldies and Goodies

Posted by Prof. Goose on May 4, 2007 - 12:26pm
Topic: Site news
Tags: albert bartlett, james kunstler, jason bradford, matthew simmons, nate hagens, sasquatch, t. boone pickens [list all tags]

Global Public Media has links up to Friend of TOD Jason Bradford's interviews with TOD's Nate Hagens discussing many of the common misconceptions about energy supplies (Part 1) and the cognitive, social and psychological factors that make it difficult for societies to agree, even when all the facts are open and transparent (Part 2). Two darned good interviews, in my humble opinion (Nate's height definitely comes through in the interview)--both related to Nate's three part series featured here over the last couple of weeks (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3).

Also, under the fold are links to a few of the perennial pieces of media that you can send to folks to explain the basic arguments regarding peak oil. First is Matt Simmons on CNBC talking about the GAO report (7 mins), then under the fold a link to Jim Kunstler's latest talk on the American car culture, Albert Bartlett's wonderful lecture on exponential growth and how it affects our lives, and then the venerable Boone Pickens on the issue as well.

Please feel free to provide more media links in the comments. As always, I cannot recommend enough going over to Global Public Media and surfing their archives.

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