Simples

Everything in the economy is created by fossil energy, as the supply dwindles the demand to consume pushes up the price, of everything.

The demand to consume is a part of the dominant paradigm, which feeds on the illusion that all natural resources are free and infinitely substitutable.

This is patently nonsensical but it has powerful backers within the economy.

Generally speaking, the more a system enriches one, the less willing one is to change it. There is a religious argument that this is how devil works; rich man/camel; but since the existence of the devil is specious, one can only assume that it is something natural.

Perhaps not original sin as in the human definition, but natural in the biological information “life” that has replicated on this planet. If DNA is simply a tool to increase the rate of entropy whilesoever excess energy remains then the goal of enrichment of the organism is the natural state.

It is only once life is given meaning that consequence arises, and we are the only biological contruction that have implied a consequence for what we call existence.

There is no actual proof of existence once consciousness fades.

Nonetheless, when you think about it we have been successful in promoting entropic decay. We use more than half the natural capital of the planet to create weapons (no social value), digital representations of reality (no real value except information) and infrastructure with a 40 year replacement timeframe.

If the first round of infratructure replacement doesn’t kill the myth of infinite growth within a finite world then the third will bankrupt and the fourth will simply never happen.

The story tells us that it is crucial to spend what remains of a very limited natural capital to promote entropy, and enrich those that have no interest in altering this market for growth.

And of course, if the theory of preconscious biological life is correct, rationing access to wealth, health, food and information; on the basis that those that can consume most, recieve most, is highly rational.

If perhaps unconscionable.

And when all of this has happened before, there is really something absurd about it happening again.

How can humans consume the sun.