Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114

(Recorded November 18th, 2025)

In this week’s episode, Nate invites listeners into an exploration of what it means to navigate a growing predicament shaped by ecological limits, rapid technological changes, and shifting expectations of reality. Our complex world hosts an immense diversity of human (and non-human) circumstances, which demand responses that are adaptive, not static. Rather than offer misleadingly prescriptive answers, Nate lays out a set of “compass points” that serve to both challenge our assumptions, and to attune our values in the direction of 'better futures than the default.'

Our responses to the 'more-than-human predicament' as individuals, communities, and a species are impacted by socially-constructed notions of status, identity, and fear. This episode draws these concepts into a wider-lens conversation regarding how we intervene and respond to the systemic change on the horizon, how we relate to one another and to the ecosystems we’re a part of, and what kinds of futures we make possible by the choices – large and small – we make today.

What does it mean to move directionally rather than to seek tidy solutions? How might shifts in behavior now allow one to become a “rock in the river” as change continues, and accelerates? And where do we look for the “True North” of our values and behaviors in order to orient ourselves towards a more coherent collective response?

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