“I was building a sandcastle with my daughter yesterday when I realized that I was spending a lot of my time putting up moats, walls, and other defensive structures to protect the castle against the encroaching tide. Eventually the tide won and flooded our castle, though at least the castle lasted for a couple of hours or so.

“Civilization faces a similar conundrum in this millennium, as we are constantly battling against the natural forces of entropy that keep trying to degrade what we have built. We have unleashed or turbocharged many of these forces ourselves, like accelerating global warming, extreme floods and droughts, ocean acidification, excess eutrophication and nutrient loading, dead zones, topsoil erosion, aquifer depletion, mass extinction, biodiversity losses, and a million others. There comes a point when we must realize that aiming for resilience while simultaneously pushing the biosphere towards critical ecological tipping points is a losing strategy. Building more dams, dykes, levees, sewers, storm drains, elevated foundations, and wind-resistant roofs can delay our reckoning, but if we cannot stabilize the biosphere and halt its march towards an ultra-chaotic state, then our fate is just as sealed as that of my tiny sandcastle.”

A READER’S RESPONSE ➤

“We can exist in a universe of entropy because we are an organizing force. Our constant battle is not with nature, it is with our own proclivity of self- destruction. What we’re fighting against are our own best interests.”

ERALD KOLASI RESPONDS ➤

“Shift [the scale] of analysis and we are not an organizing force. Yes we build roads, railways, and skyscrapers, but all of that local order and organization comes at the expense of creating greater chaos and disorder throughout the [troposphere]. The two are directly related, and this is something I discussed in my book as well. The more complex our civilization becomes, the more waste and pollution it dumps and releases into the [troposphere], triggering thermodynamic instability and all the ecological problems we’re now witnessing.”

READERS’ NOTE re misleading terms in common usage such as Planetary-biosphere ➤

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YES – So! Nh-hm – ∴ Bcs – why Ecosystm – human group (2 adults – 9b) Oprtnl. – fnctnl Rltnshps – rltns Ngtt – nvgt RELATIVELY – bsltly Apprntly. – vdntly VANITY – useless Grk – L.

…“as” published 19 hours ago on Jack Dorsey CEO’s @XComms

BILLIONAIRE MONKEYS READERS ARE of course MOST AND EVER WELCOME to read the XComms Global | Cut Through the Noise: Get Your Employees’ Undivided Attention with XComms @greeneconomyact where global macro (metaphysical) Platonic Race-memory is ever driven instantly or instantaneously (in ‘high-performance’ athletic activity) by micro quanta thought & action .. newsmedia corporations romantically call those Lived-experience and the incomprehion per DISSEQUENCED (confused ordering of THOUGHTS & ACTION), conflating or mentally reversing CAUSE & EFFECT or Falsely-equivalenced/ solecistic, inane, ‘bad’ METAPHOR or SIMILE rhetoric and sloganeering) ‘re-matricisiing’ or cerebrally reorganising as personal knowledge & ‘memory-bank’ – the Plato RACE MEMORY construct is definitional here – failed RECALL from toddlerhood through death – crudely diagnosed as Alzheimers Disease when in fact a lifelitme’s unlearning socio-cultural re-engineering to serve per the agencies and authorities of Raison-d’etat Neoliberalism notably Education, Arts, Culture, Sciences & Technology the fiscal & colonising interests of the multi $100 billion propertied elites, or Marxian class..

John, Australia

The Rule of Just Law confronted by Gangster Libertarianism circa 2000 Common Era