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Three laws of Ecology are based on the laws of thermodynamics.

  • Everything has to go somewhere.

    So there is no away to throw to!

  • You can never merely do one thing.

    So every action has an equal and opposite reaction!

  • There is a paradox about free lunches; although there is no such thing as a free lunch, our earth in this universe may be the ultimate free lunch!

So, there are ecological consequences on earth that limit what people can achieve over time.

A pine forest living today is the descendent of vegetative associations thta may have been selected for by the grazing habits of dinosaurs, millions of years ago [coeveolution].

 

The three laws of thermodynamics are:

  1. The amount of energy in the universe (a closed system) is constant.


  2. Every conversion or transformation of energy (decay of order) from one form into another is always inefficient because it is accompanied by increased randomness, we call this increasing disorder, and in terms of energy that amount of random, disorder is measured as heat.


  3. The eventual heat death of the universe occurs because, as energy is transformed, heat accumulates until every conversion finally produces more heat or infrared radiation of such a low frequency and long waves, too disorderly to do any work.

Ecology (defined)

Ecosystem

Round River

place

habitat

biotic community

sunshine

Ecosystem services

Ecological citizenship

Ecological Design

Ecological Imagination

Ecological Integrity

Ecological Planning

Ecological problem solving

Ecological thought, development of

Ecological values inhering in land

Ecological model

biological community is called a biocenose

habitat

natural wealth of habitats, or settings

Symbiotic associations are common.

WEAL

Human Ecology

A unifying science of the earth

The Dominant Animal


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