The British people preparing for the end of the world

Nah, it's just the end of the world "as you know it", but there'll be something afterwards.

It's like equality of citizens. Citizens, or people are NOT equal. Citizen are equal before the law. Only the LAW doesn't (should not) discriminate people, but treat all the same. (Of course, this in itself is dubious, given that laws can have increasing level of specific cases, just like a program, and finally provide a very personalised treatment).

It's like perpetual movement devices. There can be only increase of entropy, inside a CLOSED system. But as far as we know, the only system that is closed, is the whole universe (and EVEN! It's not that sure, there are theories of communicating multiverses). Therefore you can easily have a system (not closed), that will exhibit more energy output on one channel than input on another channel (since it's not closed, it obviously also has other input channels).