(Very long)
Energy Philosophy For
Entropic Times
By Andrew McKillop
10 April, 2006
Countercurrents.org
If we are looking for an energy philosophy that might help us in troubled times we can try out the multiple and disputed meanings of entropy. Warning : This has been tried before by many persons from many different angles. Some even jumped the gun, long ago, by disputing exactly how to state the Entropy Law, as it is called, while others rightly argued it is is fact a principle. Finally it was settled and set down, but never to the agreement of all players. Those players were 19th Century, mostly European scientists of all types - engineers, mechanical scientists, astronomers, mathematicians and even politicians, like Sadi Carnot. Later on, all kinds of philosophers, historians, writers, journalists and more politicians joined the party. As a consequence nobody today knows exactly what the Entropy Law (or principle) really means, but it seems to have a dark side and could imply that chaos rules, OK.
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There is however a big difference between Comaccio eels and lemmings on one hand, and Americans on the other. The first two run on 100% renewable energy, and the second on depleting fossil energy. This means that if you want joyful mass suicide, do it with renewable energy in a sustainable way. Later on, biologists and systems analysts can study your behavior and conclude it is totally irrational, even suicidal but some of you will still be there and can say : « So what ? ».
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