Are You Worried About the Future?

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I've got two things to i want to make you feel better about leaving, about you're worried about the future. You think we ought to be pro active and take steps to to put in place systems and alternative ways of organizing economic activity that are better than the ones that we have. And that's a near term issued with me, not a million ranges. Well, it's o rit, ye, yes. So so I have two, two thoughts. One is to comfort you that the short term prognosis is better than you might think. And the second is to make you worry more about your alternative to mine, which would be a more organized effort to rearrange things.

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.