The Reason It Saddens You Is Not the Reason Is It Would Sadden Me Too

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I don't think we're headed in that direction, although politics around the world gives me pause im right now. But what i'm having trouble with for the last 15 minutes of our conversation is i don't understand why that makes you sad. It's one of the very few places in the universe where machines can operative and processes can operate to create low anthropy enclaves. Most of the universe isn't like that. Only in such en enclaves can interesting things happen. Just try to understand otherwise, just at all the distinctions, everything s into thermodynamic equilibrium. We have heat death, that kind of thing, and nothing. I keep using that word for lack of anything better.

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.