The Path to the Singularity: An Ideological History

This paper traces the deep historical and philosophical currents that have propelled human civilisation toward a ”Resource Entropy Singularity”1 —a point of no return where the biophysical demands of the global economy overwhelm and irreversibly degrade the planetary systems upon which we depend. This crisis is often viewed through a purely material lens, as a failure of technology, overpopulation, or poor resource management (Meadows et al., 1972). I argue, however, that its roots are fundamentally ideological, originating in a series of historical-philosophical breaks that systematically and deliberately redefined humanity’s relationship with the natural world (White, 1967) and, crucially, with the laws of…