https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/David-Rafferty-Doing-the-math-to-the-four-zeroes-13766408.php

An unfortunate consequence of the 2016 election was the continued acceleration of the Great Stupiding of America, as evidenced by the growing acceptance of those who for whatever reason, disavow, disbelieve or are just disinterested in science. Most alarmingly, environmental science and climate change. So in honor of Earth Day, let’s put aside the ridiculousness of arguments like “if it’s snowing the planet can’t be warming” or that scientists are part of an evil cabal trying to take away your pickup truck. Let’s look at this in a way most Americans understand: money.

We’ll start however, with some unshakable, universal, scientific truths: the first two laws of thermodynamics. The first, the law of conservation of energy, states that in an isolated system, energy cannot be created or destroyed. The second says that the state of entropy of an isolated system will always increase over time, and that as energy is disbursed or transformed, more is wasted.