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This concept needs to be reformulated to adapt it to a process of energy efficiency and to establish that what is produced is based on the production of entropy per production unit. We should also remember that until there was abundant availability of low price fuels, it seemed logical to adapt productivity to the speed of production. Now that the reserve of matter-energy is diminishing and has reached high costs, the expressed logic needs to be modified remodeling the economy on a new system. (32:2) Many economists, politicians and administrators don't seem to grasp the concept that the law of entropy is the fundamental physics coordinate of scarcity and there is no other case in which this is so obvious as in balancing the budget. (32:3) While in general it is understood that a society can't continue to consume faster than what it produces, economists continue to ignore that a definitive balancing of the budget should not be done within the society but between society and nature. In the incapacity to comprehend the wider environmental context within which economic activity takes place, it is possible to find the key to why classic economic theory is not able to cope with the problem of deficits. (32:4) In order to balance the budget, society mustn't consume more than what nature produces. The functioning of eco-systems is similar to that of a stationary state. To keep the ecological cycle in equilibrium we need to re-absorb and re-cycle the waste. As a 100 percent re-cycle is impossible, it will be sufficient to support eco-systems with a state of balance between production and consumption. Thus, economic activity represents the human interval in the ecological cycle and, as such, it should attempt not to create more disorder in the environment; that is, it should reduce the use of unrenewable resources and employ more renewable resources at the same pace with which they are restored by nature. Only in this way it is possible to reduce the deficit between the consumption of society and the reproduction of nature. This concept challenges the way we have looked at the world over the past centuries, which principles centered around the concept of repetition of observation and reversibility of processes. Instead, in the real world nothing is mechanic, repeatable and reversible. That is why it is not possible to apply Newtonian mechanic principles to today's world. (32:5) It should be clear by now that if we continue on in this way, in the future it won't be possible to satisfy the next generations' needs. (32:6) As everybody only worries about the present it is obvious that whoever comes after us will have to begin again in poorer conditions as regards natural residual resources. Society needs to pattern itself on a well-balanced life style based on low entropy, which is definitely contrary to the system of vast waste in use today. (32:7) In the future the illusion of continual material progress will be even more misleading, unless man revises his own ideas about the current historical moment and acquires the awareness that he must invest in spiritual, political and economical global unity characterized by low entropy.
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