An Express Tribune opinion piece by food technologist Bilal Ahmad argues that everyday efforts to create order, from routines to industrial systems, always add to global disorder through waste heat and emissions. It connects the Second Law of Thermodynamics directly to climate change, extreme weather, and melting glaciers, framing environmental decline as the large-scale result of rising entropy. The article then tackles the obvious question: if decay is guaranteed, why bother with sustainability? Drawing on Jeremy Rifkin, Ilya Prigogine, and ideas of environmental stewardship, it concludes that green technology and conservation still matter because they slow resource depletion and let humans act responsibly within finite limits. Worth reading for anyone interested in the philosophical case behind climate policy, carbon reduction, and clean energy. It does not offer technical fixes or market analysis, but it makes a clear argument for why sustainability remains meaningful even when total order is impossible.
