"I'm worried about the climate jackdown leading to a social breakdown and ending up in a mad max world," he says. "The most sustainable societies are ones with a more cohesive social system, but also more acceptance of authoritarian control." He adds that we're destroying our cultural ethics by trying to figure it out at the same time as global warming is taking its toll. 'It's taken us 300 thousand years to get to this point,' he concludes.
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