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This is a 5 page paper reviewing Barry Commoner’s text “Making Peace with the Planet” (1990, 1992). Barry Commoner’s text “Making Peace with the Planet” stresses the arguments surrounding the slow destruction of the physical and environmental aspects of the planet based on continued pollutants being released into the system. While Earth Day 1970 provided the population with a promise to reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere by 90 percent by 1977; the emissions were only reduced by 19 percent by that time and have changed little since. In his analysis, Commoner also provides useful technological alternatives to industries which especially produce high pollutants such as electric generation by the burning of fossil fuels and the agricultural use of chemical pesticides. Solar energy in decentralized co-generating stations and organic large scale farming are just two of the alternatives he proposes. In his text, Commoner also discusses the political barriers which must be overcome, which are currently based on cost-benefit analyses for short term policies and private enterprise, in order to provide a more socially responsible and rational approach to protection of the global environment for present and future generations.
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aspects of the planet based on continued pollutants being released into the system. While Earth Day 1970 provided the population with a promise to reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere
by 90 percent by 1977; the emissions were only reduced by 19 percent by that time and have changed little since. In his analysis, Commoner also provides useful technological alternatives
to industries which especially produce high pollutants such as electric generation by the burning of fossil fuels and the agricultural use of chemical pesticides. Solar energy in decentralized co-generating stations
and organic large scale farming are just two of the alternatives he proposes. In his text, Commoner also discusses the political barriers which must be overcome, which are currently based
on cost-benefit analyses for short term policies and private enterprise, in order to provide a more socially responsible and rational approach to protection of the global environment for present and
future generations. Barry Commoners text "Making Peace with the Planet" (1990, 1992) introduces the reader to the conception that "people live in two
worlds". He states that the biological and physical world which has existed for over 5 billion years is gradually being forgotten and more importantly by humans who are more concerned
with the "other" world; that is, the world we created which revolves around our "homes, cars, farms, factories, laboratories, food, clothing, books, paintings, music and poetry" (Commoner, 1992, p. 3).
While humans accept responsibility for the things and events which occur within their own world, they do not accept responsibility for things which occur or happen within the physical world
and deem them as "acts of God". On a planetary scale however, these two worlds have breached each others boundaries and with the appearance of the hole in the ozone
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