Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by imtringued on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:48PM
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What? Life exists because it is the fastest way of raising entropy. Self replicating biological machines process matter much faster than geological processes. The Haber Bosch process is just a faster way of raising entropy. What we should be worried about is reaching the end too soon.
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You're misunderstanding either the parent comment or how entropy works. An organism is not a closed system, and thus isn't bound by any law of increasing entropy. In fact, life is practically _defined_ by maintaining local entropy (at the cost of the entropy of the systems it interacts with), as in Schrodinger's seminal work, "What is Life".
The parent comment's claim that "life is a war against entropy" is completely in line with this model.