Can I get an intelligent counterpoint here?

Question

Nothing we do can overcome the effects of entropy. We can slow down the effects, but that is it. There certain physical laws in the universe that cannot be broken. Simply put, first you have the main Laws of Thermodynamics - they are;

1) You can't win

2) You can't even break even

3) You can't get out of the game

Then there are the physical paradoxes (Zeno) that appear. The main 3 are;

1) You can't catch up

2) You can't even start

3) You can't even move

We have ignored these basic laws for so long we are doomed. We are already using 20% more energy than the earth and produce. In other words, we 'owe' energy. That is impossible to do. We are living on borrowed time. Just think, the next time the population doubles, like in the next 15 years, we will be using 40% more energy than the earth can produce. How long do you really think we can sustain that kind of living?

While the masses wait for the Engineers and Scientists (or the Messiah, tsk-tsk) to save the world with a “by the

Answer 1

Look at all the energy you wasted in that long drawn out question.

Answer 2

I stopped reading part way through...

my main concern is POPULATION growth which you mentioned..

did you know that several years ago the United Nations warned that the NUMBER 1 threat to our continued existance is HUMAN OVER POPULATION.. that a sustainable figure is about 5 Billion - but we already exceed 6.5 BILLION and growing AND you can see the problems its causing (well not everyone is bright enough to see the problems its causing)

but anyhow.. nobody is telling people NOT to have so many kids (except China, and I think Vietnam...)

and WORST is that science is trying to find ways to help people have MORE KIDS!!!!

and helping people to LIVE LONGER...

either we need to pick one.. but we cannot have BOTH!

Answer 3

Personal Experience, a knowledge we all have , and which grows as we use it .

In the complexity of life it is the one truth we can really call our own .

Answer 4

You seem to have forgotten that you can "reduce entropy", by lessening the distance electrical power lines have to carry energy. Also with additional technologies such as compact florescent we have reduced the entropy (heat loss) of a regular incandescent bulb by a large amount.

CF the official max carrying capacity for the human population is 9 billion, with an average academical accepted amount of about 8 billion.

Wench just goes to show, that with all the problems we have they have no answers and want no answers.

Hamish that is just a stupid answer, stop trying to pretend your smarter than everyone else.

Answer 5

wow! way too much time on your hands. i have already won. God blessed me with an awesome family, and he sent his son to die on the cross for all our sins. in my eyes i am a winner no matter what you say. have fun and enjoy life. do not be so negative. smile.