Ecomodernism begins with the realization that some degree of pollution is an inescapable consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. When people use energy to create a zone of structure in their bodies and homes, they must increase entropy elsewhere in the environment in the form of waste, pollution, and other forms of disorder.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 123