Vordois: We think of a lot of really unpleasant outcomes for the earth. Our genera and didn't do the whole damage, but set the stage for this terrible or this outcome. And i think it's because people spect the earth as a miraculous vehicle for reducing entropy. The loss of that capability is an inexpressible sadness and is to be avoided.
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.