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Perhaps you could point out what specifically you believe to be wrong, then?

The author very explicitly addresses the obvious flaw: all of these examples do, and must, increase total entropy. The point is that all of them produce reduced entropy structures, which is thermodynamically possible because none of them are closed systems.

The author is arguing that the overwhelming common assumption that a system is closed is problematic because it never actually holds.

An organism that is highly drought-adapted tends to not do as well as other organisms during a flood. We are similarly awash in energy: solar, chemical, nuclear, residual core heat, etc. It is worth considering if we are trying to overadapt to the wrong environment.