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    %GARBAGE WASTE CHAOS ENTROPY LIMIT HONEST VALUE 911225

     Each living organism depends upon its environment for
food, water, air, etc.   Each living organism must take in
parts  of  its environment,  and inevitably  return  waste
products to its environment.   No living organism can long
survive   without  getting  rid  of  its  waste.     Waste
management is essential to continued life.   It is  futile
to pretend otherwise.   The more waste which is generated,
the greater are the dilemmas of waste management.

     The  amount  of  waste which is  generated  is  often
proportional to the "standard of living"  as traditionally
measured  in  terms of consumption of manufactured  goods,
possessions, and values.   All manufacturing is subject to
the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  Within ISOLATED SYSTEMS
the amount of entropy remains constant, or increases. Each
manufacturing  process generates waste,  garbage,  entropy
and chaos; and must export not only the desirable projects
for  profit,   but also must export the  waste,   garbage,
entropy and chaos.   No  manufacturing process can survive
within an isolated system.

     As the human population increases in both numbers and
in expectations regarding consumptive standards of living,
the  human population increases in its rate of  generation
of waste, garbage, entropy and chaos;  and must ultimately
make  provision  for  exporting  all of  the  latter  into
interstellar   space  in  the  form  of  infra-red   waste
radiation.   This inevitably entails the reduction in  the
concentration of available energy, from concentrated forms
of  energy to dilute forms of energy;  e.g.,   from  solar
energy,  coal,  oil,  natural gas,  uranium,  and hydrogen
nuclei to low-grade waste heat energy.  On a finite planet
which  radiates  waste heat energy out  into  interstellar
space  at a rate which is proportional to the fourth power
of  its  average absolute temperature of the planet,   the
rate of export of waste,  garbage,  entropy and chaos into
inter-stellar  space ultimately depends upon  the  average
temperature of the planet.   Thus there are limits to  the
"standard  of  living"  and the number of  people  on  the
planet.

     Such consideration also intrude upon human efforts to
increase  human information,  knowledge and understanding.
Inevitably there is garbage generated in such efforts; for
such  efforts also may be described in part by the  Second
Law of Thermodynamics, for they entail physical processes.
Much of what is initially regarded as useful  information,
in  time becomes garbage information in the sense that  it
is  much  less  important than other  information.     The
process   of  information  management  may  helpfully   be
regarded  from  time to time,  as the process  of  garbage
management.   Ultimately some records must be thrown away.
Information records cannot perpetually increase in  extent
according to an exponential growth pattern.    Information
is stored in physical structures.   Exponential growth  of
information  ultimately  must be reflected in  exponential
growth   of   physical  structures   which   contain   the
information.     The  management  of  information  garbage
becomes  a dilemma long before the extent of the  physical
structures become a real technical problem.   No technical
procedures will resolve the dilemma of information garbage
management   in   the   face  of  exponential   growth  of
information.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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