Over the previous few a long time, humanity has globalized every part – from meals manufacturing and provide chains to communication and knowledge methods – making international locations, companies, and people extra related and reliant on one another than ever earlier than. But, with this elevated interconnectedness comes extra complexity and fragility. What have we misplaced by the globalization course of, and the way would possibly we fortify our communities by investing in native economies?
On this episode, Nate is joined by Helena Norberg-Hodge – a number one voice within the localization motion – to discover the deep systemic challenges posed by financial globalization. Collectively, they look at how the worldwide progress mannequin has fueled environmental degradation, social fragmentation, and cultural erosion, and why shifting towards localized economies is perhaps one of the vital efficient (and missed) responses to our predicament. Drawing on a long time of firsthand expertise, Helena invitations us to query the assumptions underpinning our globalized lives and picture a future rooted in native reconnection.
How would possibly we rekindle a way of sufficient in a world that continuously tells us we’d like extra? As globalization begins to retreat, what small however significant steps can we take to relocalize our lives and reconnect with one another? And how much futures is perhaps potential if we centered our communities round methods that regenerate the very locations we name house?
About Helena Norberg-Hodge
Linguist, creator and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the worldwide non-profit organisation, Native Futures. She can also be a pioneer of the brand new financial system motion, the convenor of World Localization Day, and an skilled in understanding the ecological, social, and psychological results of the worldwide financial system on various cultures.
Moreover, Helena is the creator of a number of books, together with ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening story of custom and alter in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Along with a film of the same title, Historic Futures has been translated into greater than 40 languages, and offered half one million copies. Helena has continued to supply a number of different brief movies, together with the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’.
Helena specialised in linguistics, together with research on the College of London and with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning virtually half a century, has obtained the assist of a variety of worldwide figures, together with Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.
Recorded on:
Could 7, 2025
Present Notes & Hyperlinks to Be taught Extra
00:00 – Helena Norberg-Hodge, Works, Local Futures, World Localization Day, The Economics of Happiness, Global Ecovillage Network
Featured Native Futures Brief Movies: Trade Gone Mad, Raise Our Children, Closer to Home – Voices of Hope in Times of Crisis
00:49 – Local Economy, Economic Globalization
01:15 – Noam Chomsky
01:59 – Ladakhis
03:30 – Neoclassical Economics
03:40 – Diametrically opposed Definition
04:45 – Neoliberalism
04:55 – Principle of Comparative Advantage
06:10 – Being connected to land is a spiritual foundation of many indigenous cultures
06:25 – Tibetan Plateau
06:55 – Christianity
08:10 – Romanticism, Age of Enlightenment
08:49 – Embodiment, Quantum Entanglement
09:00 – Belonging as a fundamental human need
10:10 – The Race to Mars
11:10 – The elites are less than 1%
12:11 – The Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic Revolution), Colonialism, Economic Superorganism
12:50 – Monoculture, Enclosure, Slavery
13:19 – Industrial Revolution and Industrialization,
14:20 – Subsistence definition
14:44 – Historical past of Farming: in Australia, in Asia
15:49 – Dickensian London
16:56 – Fossil Fuel, Digital Currency, Artificial Intelligence
17:31 – Financialization and its harm
18:20 – Indigeneity
18:38 – Our economy is exponentially bigger than in the year 1500 (based on GDP per capita)
19:59 – Juggernaut definition
21:30 – Iain McGilchrist, TGS Episode 1 + 2, Right vs. Left Brain Hemispheres
22:59 – Zeitgeist definition
23:35 – Left-Wing Politics, Buddhism, Ecology
23:41 – University of California Berkeley Energy and Resources Group
26:32 – Maurice Strong, Al Gore
27:11 – Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring
28:07 – Decentralization, Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schunmacher, Herman Daly (TGS Episode)
29:15 – Amory Lovins
29:50 – Monsanto, Agent Orange
30:20 – Earth Summit Rio 1992
30:25 – Reductionism
31:17 – Antibodies
33:00 – Trade treaties handing over power from nation-state to corporations
33:44 – Plant species with no predators, Pesticides, Glyphosate
36:09 – Corporate Propaganda, Urbanization, 5-Minute City
37:10 – Overshoot: Ecological, Social, Financial
37:38 – Credit, 6-Continent Supply Chain
38:45 – Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down
43:38 – Sungmisan Village
47:37 – Social Capital
47:48 – Calorie intake per capita vs. Energy usage per capita, Endosomatic vs. Exosomatic
51:09 – Helena’s Films
55:47 – Natural Building
55:55 – Grassroots movements, Permaculture, Ecovillages, Ecoversity
58:35 – History of Technology
58:53 – Intergenerational Relationships
59:53 – Waldorf Education, Impact of technology on children’s education (Zak Stein TGS Episode on this matter)
1:02:17 – Hand-Eye Coordination
1:03:30 – The Great Simplification, Climate Change
1:03:54 – Mental health crisis of global youth
1:04:27 – Corporate Empire
1:06:29 – Laissez-Faire Government, Countries swinging to the right
1:10:43 – Sigmund Freud
1:11:12 – Alcoholic Anonymous and its success, Connection of 12-step program to spirituality
1:12:00 – Vision Quest, Time Poverty
1:13:20 – Psychopathy
1:14:40 – The Polycrisis
1:14:46 – Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), Uranium mining company suing Greenland
1:16:15 – Economics of Happiness Conferences, Localization Action Guide
