What to Do as The World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action

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In this episode, Nate Hagens moves beyond diagnosis of the global polycrisis to propose a practical framework for action organised around six interdependent fronts: infrastructure and physical stock redesign, poverty and dignity infrastructure, ecological intervention, civic resilience and governance, culture and meaning, and economic transition toward post-growth models. Arguing that the window for building the foundations of a resilient future is finite and already closing, Hagens structures the framework across three overlapping phases — a current stability window requiring deliberate preparation, a transitional period of triage and disruption, and a long-term stable attractor of regenerative, human-scale, ecologically embedded societies. Hagens highlights the urgency of stabilising the inner self, building trusted networks with a shared understanding of reality, and beginning parallel construction of new structures before the old ones have fully collapsed.

Author(s)

Nate Hagens

Publication Date

20 March 2026

Publisher

The Great Simplification

DOI / URL

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Resource Type

Video/Multimedia

Resource Theme

Societal Collapse

Uses the term polycrisis

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