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标题：The Entropy Law and the Impossibility of Perpetual Economic Growth
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作者：Henrique N. Sá Earp ; Ademar R. Romeiro
期刊名称：Open Journal of Applied Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2165-3917
电子版ISSN：2165-3925
出版年度：2015
卷号：05
期号：10
页码：641-650
DOI：10.4236/ojapps.2015.510063
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：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.
关键词：Entropy;Perpetual Growth;Zero Growth;Ecosystem Resilience