Humanity is trending toward the extraction of as much work as possible from any available differences of temperature. In our wake, we will leave unavailable ene

Humanity is trending toward the extraction of as much work as possible from any available differences of temperature. In our wake, we will leave unavailable energy and chaos, every mountain leveled and every hole filled in. This goal has driven all of life. We were born with the impulse, it drives evolution itself. It's why we reproduce. It's why we invade new lands. It's why we dream of Dyson Spheres. It's why we dig up fossil sunshine and will continue that project until it kills us. But some other life will get the same idea and carry on after we fail. https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...