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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. He studied at Harvard University and taught at Washington University and Queens College. His warnings, since the 1950s, of the environmental threats posed by modern technology (including nuclear weapons, use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals, and ineffective waste management) in such works as his classic Science and Survival (1966) made him one of the foremost environmentalist spokesmen of his time. He was a third-party 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 rights, labor, and peace movements, and connected environmental decline with poverty, injustice, exploitation, and war, arguing that the root cause of environmental problems was the American economic system and its manifestations. He was instrumental in pointing out that there was a direct association between socioeconomic standing and exposure to environmental pollutants and that economics, not social responsibility, was guiding technological decision making. Outline of the essay (eight parts) Part Ⅰ (pp. 1) Introduction: people live in 2 worlds, natural world 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 and the linear process of techno-sphere. Part V. (pp. 12-14) The consistent 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-sphere. Part VII. (pp. 17-21) The danger for us to take sides Part VIII. (pp. 22-23