The Entropy Law and the Impossibility of Perpetual Economic Growth
The Entropy Law and the Impossibility of Perpetual Economic Growth
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熵定律与经济永久增长的不可能性
DOI：
10.4236/ojapps.2015.510063
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
A. Romeiro
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作者：
H. S. Earp;A. Romeiro
每一次生产-再循环迭代都在环境中积累了不可避免的物质-能量比例，以免生产过程本身成为一个永恒运动的系统，违反热力学第二定律。这种高熵物质耗尽了生态圈提供的有限的生态系统服务，因此与经济过程物质规模的长期增长不相容。此外，管理这类储存的复杂自然系统对枯竭的反应可能是突然的环境转变，从而阻碍了市场适应新的平衡条件的能力。因此，临界复原力阈值的不确定性制约了实质性经济增长。
Every production-recycling iteration accumulates an inevitable proportion of its matter-energy in the environment, lest the production process itself will be a system in perpetual motion, violating the second law of Thermodynamics. Such high-entropy matter depletes finite stocks of ecosystem services provided by the ecosphere, hence is incompatible with the long-term growth in the material scale of the economic process. Moreover, the complex natural systems governing such stocks respond to depletion by possibly sudden environmental transitions, thus hindering markets' very ability to adapt to the new equilibrium conditions. Consequently, uncertainty of critical resilience thresholds constrains material economic growth.