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At War with the Planet Barry Commoner Author: Barry Commoner (1917-) born May 28, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y. U.S. biologist and educator. H e studied at Harvard University and taught at Washington University and Queens College. His warnings, since the 1950s, of the environmental threats pose d by modern technology (including nuclear weapons, use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals, and ineffective waste management) in suc h works as his classic Science and Survival (1966) made him one of t he foremost environmentalist spokesmen of his time. He was a third-p arty candidate for U.S. president in 1980. Commoners activist career can be defined as an attempt to weave together a larger vision of social justice. Since the 1960s, he has called attention to parallels between the environmental, civil righ ts, labor, and peace movements, and connected environmental decline with poverty, injustice, exploitation, and war, arguing that the roo t cause of environmental problems was the American economic system a nd its manifestations. He was instrumental in pointing out that there was a direct asso ciation between socioeconomic standing and exposure to environmental pollutants and that economics, not social responsibility, was guidi ng technological decision making. Outline of the essay (eight parts) Part Ⅰ (pp. 1) Introduction: people live in 2 worlds, natural w orld and our own world. Part Ⅱ (pp. 2-5): Why the two worlds are at war? Part Ⅲ (pp. 6-9) Deal with the first law of the ecosphere and the law governing the relationship between man-made object and the surroundings Part IV. (pp. 10-11) The closed cyclical process of ecosphere an d the linear process of techno-sphere. Part V. (pp. 12-14) The consi stent and harmonious nature of ecosphere as contrasted to the rapid change and variation of the techno-sphere. Part VI. (pp. 15-16) The consequences of failure of the ecosphere and the techno