That’s wrong.

Life exists because of entropy.

Whenever there’s an energy gradient and enough time, matter organizes itself in ways that dissipate energy faster.

Whirlpools.
Storms.
Cells.
Brains.
Civilizations.

Life is just energy learning a faster exit.

Order is not resistance.
It’s the scaffolding entropy uses to scale.

Evolution didn’t care what was true or good.
Only what burned resources efficiently enough to keep going, until it didn’t.

That’s it.

Humans didn’t break the pattern.
We scaled it.

Fire.
Agriculture.
Industry.
Fossil fuels.
Computation.

And now, AI.

Each step unlocked deeper, denser energy stores.
Each step shortened feedback loops.
Each step increased throughput.

From entropy’s perspective, we’re extremely successful.

This is why we “destroy the planet.”

Not because we’re evil.
Not because we’re greedy.

But because intelligence is an energy-seeking multiplier.

Intelligence doesn’t produce restraint.
It produces speed.

And the idea that “awareness will save us” is comforting, but mostly false.

Seeing the cliff doesn’t slow the system down.

Systems don’t self-correct just because some parts understand.

Because morality evolved to manage tribes.
Not planetary-scale feedback loops.

So yes:

We extract.
We overshoot.
We destabilize our habitat.

And then our specific configuration disappears.

The planet doesn’t die.
Life doesn’t end.
Entropy continues.

What disappears is us.

Not as punishment.
Not as failure.
As a phase.

A species could survive this, not by choice, but by becoming something evolution rarely produces:

intelligence able to see its own trajectory,
and power constrained tightly enough to slow itself
without being outcompeted by systems that won’t slow down.

That isn’t evolution.
It’s an exception to it.

Most civilizations don’t become exceptions.

They grow.

Again, and again.

Entropy always wins.

The only question is whether intelligence learns to slow the burn, or just make the fire brighter.

You are entropy, briefly conscious enough to name itself.

Whether that awareness slows the burn, or just feeds it, remains an open question.

PS: Entropy decides the direction, not the details. It doesn’t forbid survival, only makes it rare. What intelligence does in that narrow margin is still an open question.