Paradigms that inform the present use and energy practices of culture

Does the following context in summary want to say " if overuses of natural resources resist being corrected by social forces, they will unavoidably be corrected by natural forces" i.e. "they might escape social protests but they can not escape the mother nature"? But, I can not understand the role of "culture" in the first line. What does the green sentence mean actually?

Context:

If The paradigms that inform the present use and energy practices of culture (exploitation, consumption, transformation into possession, transformation into profit) do not undergo modification by social forces
either voluntarily (through legal means) or involuntarily (through revolutionary means) Then They will undergo modification through the working out of the natural forces (read entropy).