What Kind of Options Do We Have for You're Singing?

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Two thirds of the earth is water, going to land in the ocean. So what options do we have for you? I don't know why you're smiling. Sandy makes me smile too. Kind if i don't know there's a certain hopeless charm to it,. But what kind of options would we have to do something about it? Would we attack it, try to obliterate it? People have thought about this. Don't think about sending a nuclear bomb to explud exploded or something like that. That's not going to work. It's challenging them, pretty sure.

Of all the scenarios that keep astrophysicist Sandra Faber up at night, it's not the Earth's increasing volcanism, the loss of photosynthesis, or even the impact of a massive asteroid. Rather, it's the collapse she's certain will result from the unbridled growth of the world's economies. Join Faber and EconTalk host Russ Roberts as they explore what the most inexorable law of physics has to do with economics and whether the world's growing economies pose a problem or provide the solution for the finiteness of planet Earth.