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Leadership
know existed; 2) There is no growth
in our universe; 3) Humankind,
in its greedy behavior of using China & BRICS Choose
up our planet’s “fixed resources”
is driving civilization towards Progress Over West’s
its eventual doom. These axioms
parallel the pseudo-scientific Deindustrialization
theory, which stipulates that
physical universe, driven by an
irreversible entropic process, will
culminate in a final state incapable
of further development. According Civilization has never had a resource shortage. We
to the second law of thermo- advanced from a wood based energy economy, to
dynamics, through the inexorable the exploitation of coal as a new resource, then
degeneration-disorganization of oil and gas, to uranium based fission energy (still
energy, our universe will wind- underutilized) to the potential of a fusion powered
down, until reaching the ultimate economy. This long wave of attaining higher levels
state of disorder, deprived of of energy thruput and energy flux-density, through
usable energy. This zero-growth scientific discovery, and inventing new technologies
belief is the bedrock from which for new resources, is what we know as: human
all the dogma postulated by the progress.
green-environmentalist movement
emanates. Anti-Human Axiom
Neither zero-growth ideologies, We humans are transformers of the earth, contrary
nor entropy, govern our universe, to the notion that the behavior of human society will
especially the creative powers of harm the planet, as well as the less noxious view that
the human mind. The history of the humans are simply caretakers of the earth. In the
progress of civilization debunks words of the great German Philosopher, Gottfried
these allegations. The physical Leibniz, there is a pre-established harmony between
universe is anti-entropic, organized the noetic powers of the human mind and the physical
to respond to human-noetic universe in which we exist. There is no pristine or
interventions by advancing to the equilibrium state of nature; only development or lack
next higher plateau of development. of development for the human species. To accentuate
The physical universe and the this concept beyond any misunderstanding: human
human species were created to beings, endowed with the principle of creativity, are in
generate continuous development, harmony with the developing physical universe.
overcoming all so called limits to
growth. Parsons Thomas Malthus, patron of the East India
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