Entropy: A New World View
Entropy: A New World View is a non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, with an Afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. It was first published by Viking Press, New York in 1980 (). A paperback edition was published by Bantam in 1981, in a paperback revised edition, by Bantam Books, in 1989 (). The 1989 revised edition was titled: "Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World" (). Contents. In the book the authors analyze the world's economic and social structures by using the second law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of entropy. The authors argue  that humanity is wasting resources at an increasing rate, which if unchecked will lead to the destruction of civilization, which has happened before on a smaller scale to past societies. The book promotes the use of sustainable energy sources and slow resource consumption as the solution to delay or forestall death by entropy.