What happens when the economy we’re building our lives around can no longer sustain itself?
Professor Steve Keen joins The Danza Project for Episode 301 with a stark warning: he believes environmental damage and resource pressures could cause our production systems to start collapsing within the next 20–30 years.
Danza asks what that means for someone raising three children, buying a home, and trying to build a future. Keen explains why he believes mainstream economics understates the dangers—and why individual preparation alone won’t solve them.
The conversation covers private debt versus government debt, his warnings before the 2008 financial crisis, Florida real estate, AI’s energy demands, and the climate risks he believes deserve far more attention.
Keen also discusses renewable energy, proposals to cool the planet, and why he thinks meaningful action will require cooperation on an enormous scale.
When asked how optimistic he is that the world will change course in time, his answer is blunt: “Zero optimism on that front.”
Watch the full conversation and tell us: what would it take for people to take these warnings seriously?
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Steven KEEN Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:11 - As workers what should we know about the economy today
3:40 - How can we find this information more freely? | Private Debt and Energy | Myths
5:32 - What Economic Growth actually means
8:19 - Limits to growth | Depleting Raw Materials and the social Collapse
10:00 - Who in the govt is responsible for listening to this and making a change | Hippos and the Ice Age
13:00 - Steven’s optimism on whether we will survive the next 20-30 years
14:42 - Is it too late? | Solutions
18:11 - Extinction-level threat | People will lose a lot of money | Delusional information about the climate
21:44 - The situation around the world for making a change | William Nordhouse | China’s trajectory
25:07 - The best solutions for us to prepare for something like this | Funding the people the research
28:48 - The backlash Steven receives | The fragile economy
31:05 - The Hurricanes in Florida | El Niño and the Pacific Ocean | Cyclones
33:31 - Banks listening to Economists but not Scientists
35:05 - Why Economist’s are getting it so wrong | Ben S. Bernanke
39:01 - The false assumptions about the nature of the climate
42:00 - Should the average citizen be afraid of purchasing homes? | Potential Catastrophes and Wake up calls
45:20 - Is anything we are doing helping at all? | China vs America | A.I is helping?
48:39 - What the USA and Planet looks like if they followed Steven Keen’s solutions | Religions
53:17 - Religious beliefs and how we’d attempt to start a new religion | Carl Sagan
55:25 - Tom Murphy and how this proper information can be found
57:00 - The calibre of Politicians today | Money behind silencing voices behind the good fight
59:17 - Danza asks Steven to give a 3 minute message to the youth
1:03:59 - The extinction of animal schools and insects we’ve extinct | The Gulf Stream and West Antarctic
1:08:31 - Steven Keen’s literature picks for anyone wanting to learn more about this conversation
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