Konstantin Kisin's WARNING: Our Leaders Have Lost Control, We're Headed For Conflict And Violence!
Konstantin Kisin and Steve Keen join Steven Bartlett to warn that economic stagnation, immigration pressures, and cultural division are pushing Western democracies toward serious civil unrest.
The gist
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Kisin argues that uncontrolled immigration combined with stagnant living standards creates the historical conditions for radicalization on both left and right.
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Keen says energy abundance is the foundation of economic growth, and high electricity costs leave Britain unable to compete with the US and China.
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Kisin says climate change is already unstoppable, so Britain, which produces just 1% of global emissions, should fund adaptation like flood defenses rather than costly energy policies.
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Kisin warns that building superintelligent AI without solving the alignment problem first is an existential risk, and competitive race dynamics between nations make it worse.
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