Yet nature, like knowledge, is a public good that needs state intervention to be “produced” in sufficient quantities. The only way to overcome the finiteness of our world is to maintain as much space as possible between entropy and history by investing in education and research aimed at increasing renewable energies, reducing the energy intensity of our standards of living, and slowing the pace of environmental erosion.
但自然和知识一样，也是需要政府干预才能足量“出产”的公众利益。克服世界有限性唯一的方法就是通过投资旨在增加可再生能源、降低现有能源消耗，以及减轻环境侵蚀的教育和研究来尽可能保证资源退降和技术进步之间存在足够的空间。