izentrop wrote:Ahmed wrote: the correlation between energy expenditure and destruction is indisputable
Reactionary!
I think on the contrary
which correcting the mistakes of the past and present is entirely possible as long as everyone has to gain comfort and safety. .
It is necessary to differentiate a personal opinion which is the belief of a scientific observation.
The increase in energy dissipation (
a fortiori through technological means) necessarily induces a modification of the environment to which it is necessary to readjust through an even greater energy dissipation. This initiates a phenomenon of positive feedback of the type
Red queen.
The trees of the Borneo forest do not fall under the effect of global warming (1) but under the action of chainsaws and bulldozers, i.e. basically under the action of a form of energy (2 ), it is obviously the same thing concerning urbanization and overfishing, we are going through a crisis
entropic(3)
I trust the youth to straighten it all out.
It is politicians' speech, that is to say
"after me the Flood"!
For future generations to progress further, we would have to bequeath to them something other than hell ...
(1) Not yet fortunately for us!
(2) Whether thermal or electric does not change the operation of a chainsaw.
(3) entropy (linked to entropy) and obviously anthropogenic (linked to human action).
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.