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ujeenator@lemm.ee to Degrowth@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months ago

Our current economic systems require infinite growth in a finite system. In cellular biology, this is known as ‘cancer.’

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Our current economic systems require infinite growth in a finite system. In cellular biology, this is known as ‘cancer.’

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    I’d like to share a revelation I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.

    Agent Smith

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    Nah. We have almost infinite energy to use from the Sun, and with enough energy other resources can easily be reused.

    Add to that that the correlation between human wellbeing and energy usage is 1:1.

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      The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state
      That entropy must increase and not dissipate
      Creationists always try to use the second law
      To disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw
      The second law is quite precise about where it applies
      Only in a closed system must the entropy count rise
      The earth’s not a closed system, it’s powered by the sun
      So fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun

      You down with Entropy?

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        Creationists always try to use the second law To disprove evolution

        The fuck? How does that even work?

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          Living things are “entropy eaters” — they take in energy, reduce their own entropy, and poop out entropy to the environment. This is fine, and it doesn’t violate any thermodynamics if you look at the whole picture.

          So I think the point is that creationists take a myopic view and only look at the creature itself, where indeed it reduces its own entropy…but that’s because the creationists are stupid and ignore, you know…everything else.

          This is true not only for individual animals, but for evolution itself — more complexity in animals can be viewed as a decrease in entropy (again, this is only a problem if you ignore the rest of the universe).

          Their argument is the same as saying that you can open your fridge door to cool off your room.

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        What do you think you posted?

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          We have almost infinite energy to use from the Sun

          I think I posted an entirely jokey comment in reference to this specific line in your comment.

          Thus:

          The earth’s not a closed system, it’s powered by the sun

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      Oh its finite. And not the only finite resource we need.

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        I’m guessing that he’s driving a customized Lada that has been converted to a convertible … a lot easier for me and everyone else to hop in for a ride.

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      Catabolic capitalism should be avoided.

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    [Smith talking to Morpheus meme]

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