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by buck4roo 1338 days ago
Society is a heat engine.

Full stop.

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Yes, that's the problem.

Society's waste heat will cook us, literally, if we try to use ever-growing amounts of energy on the surface of a sphere covered by a blanket of gasses and moisture, because there is no mechanism to discard the waste heat fast enough.

In other words, society is a heat engine until it becomes a bomb.