Critique Of Making Peace With The Planet - 1373 Words

Tamesha Barnes December 4, 2014 Paper #2 Environmental Health 301W I pledge that I have neither given nor received any aid on this work_________Tamesha Barnes_________. Critique of Making Peace with the Planet Barry Commoner’s book, Making Peace with the Planet, was an â€Å"extremely accessible and hard-hitting analysis of the environmental crisis (Gold). Barry Commoner made an emotional plea with the public to stop wasting money, and valuable nonrenewable resources. With this book, he provided a visual description of the conflict between the ecosphere, and the technosphere, and how the government had failed the earth. (Sapp). Some of the conflicts that affected the environment included the goods and systems that were produced by human†¦show more content†¦He was also one of the first scientists to mention that even though environmental hazards affected every individual it came in contact with, it mostly affected the poor and racial minorities because of the location of the dangerous chemicals was always near where they inhabited. Barry Commoner not only raised several critical issues in this book, but he also â€Å"carried a war- and-peace metaphor through to the end of the book.† (Moomaw, p.83). Back then, the government spent nearly $1 trillion dollars each year to fund the military expenditures, he proposed that the government should use some of the money as an investment to possibly achieve an â€Å"everlasting peace between the humans and the planet.† (Moomaw, p.83). The money could have been put to use to create both political and economic solutions to promote the peace Barry Commoner so desperately sought after. As usual, this did not happened, in fact the government came up short of the expectations. Barry Commoner later argued that the initial problem was the â€Å"shift to environmentally destructive technologies.† (Moomaw, p.84). Because of this shift many big companies focused on gaining profit from these technologies rather than focusing on the materialistic needs of society or even the environmental concerns as a whole. Barry Commoner also mentioned the technosphere as a ma jor concern caused by environmental pollution. He demonstrated the failure of the government by using the Environmental Protection