I think we do have a deep phobia about death, personal death, and death of culture and ideas. So i'm just hoping we get enough time to build a self sustaining civilization on another planet. And then whatever catastrophes occur on earth, there will still be an outpost that can bring bring our knowledge back after we go through what i expect to be a dark es.
On this episode, we meet with Economist, Author, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London, Steve Keen.
Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and debt creation, and the disconnect economic theory has to climate change risks.
About Steve Keen:
Steve Keen is an economist, author of Debunking Economics and The New Economics: A Manifesto, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/30-steve-keen