Standing in the Way: Sustainable Future vs. Sloth, Genes, and Entropy

The problem of unsustainability boils down to this: universal entropy, the measure of energy and material uselessness, always rises. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics insists that reducing entropy by concentrating order, as usable energy and materials, in any system, will discharge always greater entropy into its environment. All technological activities, regardless of whether they rely on renewable or nonrenewable resources, cause the entropy of the surroundings to increase. Technological activities introduces a profitable structure but that structure is compensated by the chaos of environmental harm.