From the earliest moments of the universe's existence, everything was a burning, glowing, and swirling turbulent matter and energy, with electrons, protons, and neutrons forming atoms. Nothing but pure exergy at the creation of space and time. Dissipating ever since seeking equilibrium.

The central problem of the hunter-gatherer is that of food intermittency.

The real advantage of agriculture is that the fat years can better be taken advantage of storing surpluses against bad years.

Every year some of the hydrocarbons that plants produce get buried over a period of 500 million years more than 10 million billion tons of carbon sequestered in the earth in the form of coal oil and natural gas.

It is on this account that our civilization with its thousands upon thousands of social roles its vast libraries of technical knowledge and its bewildering and ever-growing organizational complexity sprawling into being in a mere two centuries.

of energy it is using now could continue ...

that very unsettling fact ...

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