Entropy and Sustainability (09) My Proposals for Sustainability
To conclude this book, I would like to present my personal proposal for what we should do to make our civilization su ...
Entropy and Sustainability (08) The Kyoto Protocol
How long can our civilization flourish? Will our civilization remain thousands of years hence? During the Cold War th ...
Entropy and Sustainability (07) Fuel Cells
People expect that a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine will take the place of an oil-powered internal combustion engi ...
Entropy and Sustainability (06) Desertification
About one-third of the world’s land surface is arid or semi-arid. The Earth’s landmasses are losing 24 bi ...
Entropy and Sustainability (05) Global Warming
Today, global warming is the most popular topic of all environmental problems. It was one of the major themes talked ...
Entropy and Sustainability (04) Pollution
There are many environmental problems that threaten the sustainability of our civilization, namely, the problems of p ...
Entropy and Sustainability (03) Decentralization of Powers
Cooling centralizes systems, while warming decentralizes them. The modern Little Ice Age centralized social systems, ...
Entropy and Sustainability (02) History of Human Systems
Since the survival of our systems depends on getting the low-entropy resource from the environment, throwing the high ...
Entropy and Sustainability (01) Entropy and Systems
The shortage of natural resources and the destruction of the natural environment are two big problems that are now th ...
Entropy and Sustainability (00) Table of Contents
The modern civilization that originated from the Industrial Revolution is now spreading throughout the world. The dem ...