A human being has always been aware of an experience of entropic, transitory world, even before the discovery of entropic law. The life fights for resources of low entropy and radiates thermodynamic and material entropy. At the beginning of discovery of entropy law the science excluded the notion of life from the notion of entropy. Likewise, the science later excluded from the notion of entropy the mind and information. Nonlinear thermodynamic discovered creative role of entropy but has not changed the status of the matter in the entropic process. Even the matter in the closed system inevitably dissipates, degrades and becomes unavailable for human work. A human being does not always have on disposal technologies and energy to collect dispersed matter and make it available for his own working processes. Modern scientific societies are simultaneously ever more complex and dynamic. Due to this, they are also ever more entropic. Consequently, marginal outputs of inputs start to decrease in various fields. These diminishing marginal returns are tried to be avoided by increased privatisation, limiting of social welfare, greater freedom of the market, greater scientific creativity, technical innovation etc. A new socio-ecological paradigm is needed to teach us how to live in a creative way and in harmony with values that would respect limited capacities of our biosphere.
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