Not OP, but I'm not sure what you're trying to imply...going from liquid to gas phase change is going from lower entropy to higher entropy. There is no laws of

Not OP, but I'm not sure what you're trying to imply...going from liquid to gas phase change is going from lower entropy to higher entropy. There is no laws of thermodynamics being broken. And for your note for closed system, control volumes are defined as the system you're looking at. There is no "scale" when it comes to it (whether your control volume is the Earth, universe, or your room). Laws of thermodynamics cannot be broken regardless of your control volume size (as long as you obey the continuous limit theorem).