Planting, growing, processing and cooking the foods you eat all require high quality
energy and matter resources that add low quality heat and waste materials to the
environment.
Enormous amount of low quality heat and waste matter are added to the environment
when concentrated deposits of minerals and fuels are extracted from the earth, processed
and used for burned to heat and cool the buildings you use, to transport you, and to
make roads, clothes, shelter, and other items you use.
Some of these processes create order in the form of complex organic molecules and
living organisms.
But at the same time, these processes require an increase in disorder or entropy, in the sun
and in the earth ‘s environment.
Measurements show that the total amount of entropy in the form of low quality heat and
low quality matter added the environment to keep you( or any living things ) live and to
provide the items you use is much greater than the order maintain in your body.
Thus all forms of life are tiny pockets of order maintained by creating a sea of disorder in
their environment.
The primary characteristic of advanced industrial society is an ever increasing flow of
high quality energy and matter resources to maintain the order in human bodies and the
larger pockets of order we civilization.
As a result, today’s advanced industrial societies are increasing the entropy of the
environment more than at any other time in human history.
This is the entropy trap.
The second energy law tells us that we can't avoid increasing the entropy of the
environment, but we can reduce or minimise the amount we add.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO MATTER AND ENERGY LAWS
Throw away societies:
Because of the law of conservation of matter and the second law of energy, resources use
by each of us automatically adds some waste heat and waste matter to the environment,
thus increasing its entropy.
The more energy and matter resources we use and waste, the greater the entropy increase
in the environment.
Today's advanced industrialized countries are throw away societies, sustaining ever
increasing economic growth by maximizing the rate at which matter and energy resources
are used and wasted.
The scientific laws of matter and energy suggest that if more and more people continue
to use and waste resources at an increasing rate.
The capacity of the local, regional and global environment to dilute and degrade waste
matter and absorb heat will be exceeded.
Matter re-cycling societies:
A stopgap solution to this problem is to convert from a throw away society to a matter
recycling society.
energy and matter resources that add low quality heat and waste materials to the
environment.
Enormous amount of low quality heat and waste matter are added to the environment
when concentrated deposits of minerals and fuels are extracted from the earth, processed
and used for burned to heat and cool the buildings you use, to transport you, and to
make roads, clothes, shelter, and other items you use.
Some of these processes create order in the form of complex organic molecules and
living organisms.
But at the same time, these processes require an increase in disorder or entropy, in the sun
and in the earth ‘s environment.
Measurements show that the total amount of entropy in the form of low quality heat and
low quality matter added the environment to keep you( or any living things ) live and to
provide the items you use is much greater than the order maintain in your body.
Thus all forms of life are tiny pockets of order maintained by creating a sea of disorder in
their environment.
The primary characteristic of advanced industrial society is an ever increasing flow of
high quality energy and matter resources to maintain the order in human bodies and the
larger pockets of order we civilization.
As a result, today’s advanced industrial societies are increasing the entropy of the
environment more than at any other time in human history.
This is the entropy trap.
The second energy law tells us that we can't avoid increasing the entropy of the
environment, but we can reduce or minimise the amount we add.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO MATTER AND ENERGY LAWS
Throw away societies:
Because of the law of conservation of matter and the second law of energy, resources use
by each of us automatically adds some waste heat and waste matter to the environment,
thus increasing its entropy.
The more energy and matter resources we use and waste, the greater the entropy increase
in the environment.
Today's advanced industrialized countries are throw away societies, sustaining ever
increasing economic growth by maximizing the rate at which matter and energy resources
are used and wasted.
The scientific laws of matter and energy suggest that if more and more people continue
to use and waste resources at an increasing rate.
The capacity of the local, regional and global environment to dilute and degrade waste
matter and absorb heat will be exceeded.
Matter re-cycling societies:
A stopgap solution to this problem is to convert from a throw away society to a matter
recycling society.
