ABSTRACT
In a stabilized world model it is proposed to introduce growth-regulating policies as pollution control, resource recycling increased lifetimes of all forms of capital, and methods to restore eroded and infertile soil. Such value changes include increased emphasis on food and services rather than on industrial production. The notion of entropy is often used as an expression of warning for humanity to beware of the final catastrophy of a death by dissipation when all energy sources have been converted to useless heat or when the maximum of entropy has been attained. However, life as such and especially intelligent life is able to overcome the death by entropy to some degree. The mechanized increase in output has led to a reduction in farm land whenever farmers were unable to sell their corn at reasonable prices on world markets. The "consumer society" must give way to a "low entropy society" with other goals than to amass worldly riches.
