Is the Milky Way a Magnetosphere?

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The idea that there's not one of those stars that has an earth like planet in terms of carbon. The milky way, if you've ever seen it at night, you've been lucky enough to see it or in photograph,. It's got a, it got a lot of stars. Some of the factors, probably the most important, is supporting. Is a temperature that supports liquid water on the surface.

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.