@stip

LOL. In fact it is very little technical terms here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

well, hands up who can follow this, I can't ;)

Let me make super dumbed down version:

"People use all their knowledge and society organization to convert maximum possible amounts of energy and natural resources into shit. " :-)

In thermodynamics, entropy scales with the temperature of the planet. Absolute zero is the lowest entropy point, or quantum zero point. So if you want more entropy, light a match.

Additionally, the rate at which information is exchanged is such that genetically speaking, we can not adapt fast enough. (we keep on creating new environments).

Looking around I can say that people adopted perfectly, they just don't give a fuck about information. At all.

@kurth

In other words, we need to move to non-carbon energy sources as rapidly as possible. Conservation and efficiency are not viable strategies to reduce energy usage or to reduce carbon footprint.

Looks like idiot citation.

I provide much better one:

No-one seems to have noticed that it is immaterial if global warming/ climate change is man-made or not. The fact is that we cannot continue the way we are because the resources we are depleting will eventually be gone. It won't have a major impact on those who are around now, but future generations will have good reason to curse us to eternal damnation for the massive waste of valuable resources over the last hundred years or so.

I believe Tim Garret's research deserves alittle more indepth study than the 5 minutes you gave it...and then made your unprepared comment.

May be, I just read main points and I do not agree with them completely.

Citation I provided show my position. All this global warming thing is just big distractor, as at same time same people produce-market-sell piles of short lived crap using huge resources. I never heard about any international or mass media effort towards stopping it. Even for fucking global warming it is all just good exercises for their tongue .

Here's an article about entropy and the origins of life.

"Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”

http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/tech2014.pdf

http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/2013jcpsrep.pdf

From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat......" read it here https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

Heady stuff. Carlin may end up being the Aristotle of this era. His thought on plastics is not that far away from some of these exotic math theories floating around out there like this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/is-the-universe-a-simulation.html?_r=0

excerpt: "But one fanciful possibility is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics — not in what we commonly take to be the real world. According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used."

Automobiles, as I said early here are perfect example of how people degrade quality of their life and increase entropy.

@alcomposer

I am not big believer in abstract intelligence. Actually I think that such proposals are mostly made to hide system flaws and flaws of human nature.

I see people do interesting and useful things if in certain conditions and environment, but setting such things for masses will require methods most of people won't like.

It is also theory now what life is designed by nature as way to increase entropy