re: [CrashList] Common Ground

[bon moun]

At 05:13 PM 12/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>
>BTW, why should the second law of thermodynamics apply to the Earth? It's
not a 
>closed system. Specifically, there's the sun up there (hopefully).


The 2nd Law doesn't only apply to "closed systems," if there is such a
thing.  It applies to energy.  Unless you can find a credible way for solar
energy to be converted into enough concentrated, portable energy to replace
fossil fuel, and simultaneously redesign and retool the entire global
economic infrastructure to accomodate your new discoveries before the
depletion of primary oil begins the "crash cascade," the 2nd Law not only
applies, it is about to become a very hard master indeed.



"I am not a Marxist."

                        -Karl Marx

"Mask no difficulties."

                        -Amilcar Cabral

"Am I to be cursed forever with becoming
somebody else on the way to myself?

                        -Audre Lorde

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