Entropy: Murphy was right

Joule´s concept of entropy, linked with the concept of the inter-relatoin of energy and the production and refining of material, leads to the recognition that generation of waste can be equated to increase in entropy. Thus, we are operating in a limited entropy field available on earth, and this insight has profound significance for economic and environmental systems. Boltzmann indicated that an increase in entropy is synonymous with moving to a state of higher probability, so the greater the wastedness, the more likely this state. This has been enshrined in the pragmatic Murphy´s law: `if anything can go wrong it will¿¿