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Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: No March Back To Equilibrium

A fundamental truism derived from the laws of thermodynamics, is that closed systems trend inexorably towards chaos.  The reason is that there isn't an external environment to which it can export the entropy created by its ongoing operations.  Our global system recently became a closed system.  There is very little of the world that it doesn't touch, influence, or manipulate.  So, we can expect to see an increase in entropy in all fields of human endeavor; expressed as chaotic forms of pollution, warfare, economic crisis, and societal discontent.  Worse, this trend line can't be mitigated with even with best of management (if we were only so lucky) at the national or global organizational level, since the only process which might accomplish this is organizational fragmentation/death.  So, when you hear economists talk about a return to equilibrium for our global economy (or words to the same effect in other professions) ....

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