i expect climate results to hiat us faster than energy shortages will. But ihave feeling climate dynamics like the worst of which are the ones that philip anderson, the chemistry professor of chemistry at harvard university, who discovered the hole in the ozonla, his anticipation there are the scariest i've ever seen. So if things like that start happening, then advanced civilization in the northern hemisphere will to fall apart. Were addicted, and we're entitled. We produce 85 % of our own energy. Those three things are a nasty cocktail.
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