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Nate is a well-known authority on global resource depletion. Until recently he was lead editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most popular and highly-respected websites for analysis and discussion of global energy supplies and the future implications of energy decline.
Nate's presentations address the opportunities and constraints we face in the transition away from fossil fuels. On the supply side, Nate focuses on biophysical economics (net energy) and the interrelationship between debt-based financial markets and natural resources. On the demand side, Nate addresses the evolution-derived underpinnings to conspicuous consumption, valuation of the present over the future, and habituation to resource overconsumption, and offers suggestions on how individuals and society can better adapt and mitigate to what's ahead.
Nate has appeared on PBS, BBC, and NPR, and has lectured around the world. He holds a Masters Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. Previously Nate was President of Sanctuary Asset Management and a Vice President at the investment firms Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers.
Post Carbon Institute board member Nate Hagens discusses conspicuous consumption as a natural behavior--one that can be changed, one that must be changed quickly if we are to create stable, resilient societies.
"Without behavioral change, without changing the carrot that the United States and the countries that follow us compete for, away from conspicuous consumption... its only going to be fingers in the dyke, temporary fixes."
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Nate is a well know authority on the overall resource depletion picture. He was, until recently, the editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most popular and highly-respected websites in the world for analysis and discussion of global energy supplies and their implications for the future.
His talks address the opportunities and constraints facing the coming human transition away from fossil fuels. On the supply side Nate focuses on biophysical economics (net energy) and the interrelationship between debt based financial markets and natural resources. On the demand side Nate addresses the evolutionarily-derived underpinnings to conspicuous consumption, valuing the present over the future, and habituation to resource overconsumption and offers suggestions on how we as individuals and society can better adapt and mitigate to what's ahead.
Nate has appeared on PBS, BBC, NPR and many other radio stations and has lectured around the world on issues related to resource depletion.
Nate Hagens holds a Masters Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently completing his PhD in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Previously he was President of Sanctuary Asset Management and was a Vice President at investment firms Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers.
At the intersection of global energy depletion and concerns about human impact on the environment lie some serious and oft overlooked issues. Largely gone from our public discourse is the idea that oil is infinite. It is now … >>
This article, by Nate Hagens and Kenneth Mulder, is taken from the book Fleeing Vesuvius. Today’s prices and costs provide a very bad basis for making investment decisions because they reflect temporary … >>
The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will … >>
Post Carbon Board member Nate Hagen's recent talk in Salina was reported in the Hays Daily News. Nate was there by invitation of The Resliience Group, a local group working on regional responses to resource depletion. … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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