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We don't really create-- we merely transform physical resources from one form to another If I were to give you an equal mass of rocks in exchange for everything that you own, would you be equally wealthy (equally secure)? If society were instantly given equal masses of rock and mud in echange for all of the artifacts that it had created over the past 100,000 years, and if in the same instant all of any otherwise tech…
I'll answer the questions in order: 1: If humans lost all technology today, the vast majority of them would die off within a month, because only modern, high-energy farming can get enough food out of the ground to feed them. However, this high-energy farming is only possible because of oil, which not only transports the food, but provides the pesticides without which insects would be eating instead of humans. (Anothe…
Entropy on Earth has been decreasing for billions of years. The 2nd law of thermodynamics only applies to a closed system.