Sami: Who's this thing out here, somehow separate from you and me and the earth, that feels sad when the earth disappears or when there's less civilization? What? Ho, who's feeling this loss? Right? I mean, it sounds like like a hard scrabble life for, you know, lot of people living near a subsistence. That sounds horrible. But i'm using very traditional moralityo on that. A, but what else would you use? There's no external creature feeling sadness. It's us feeling the sadness. And we imagining future scenarios and seeing some that are barren and some that are fruitful,. In by way of our innate way of judging things and
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.