two worlds

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1.two worlds: natural world, created over the Earth's 5-billion-year
history by physical, chemical, and biological processes. The other world is our own creation: homes, cars, farms, factories, laboratories, food, clothing, books, paintings, music, poetry.
2.With the appearance of a continent-sized hole in the Earth's
protective ozone layer and the threat of global warming, even droughts, floods, and heat waves1may become unwitting acts of man.
3.We have been tampering with this powerful force, unaware, like
the Sorcerer's Apprentice, of the potentially disastrous consequences of our actions.
4.from the first expedition to the moon ,the earth is a beautiful blue
sphere decorated by swirls of fleecy2clouds. while, in fact, already human activity has profoundly altered global conditions in ways that may not register3on the camera.
5.The human attack on the ecosphere has instigated an ecological
counterattack.
6.One of the basic laws of the ecosphere can be summed up as
"Everything is connected to everything else."
The second law of ecology—"Everything has to go
somewhere"
The third informal law of ecology is "Nature knows best."
7.a fish is an element of preexisting system.
8.the technosphere is composed of objects and materials that reflect
a rapid and relentless process of change and variation.
9. The petrochemical industry has departed from these restrictions, producing thousands of new man-made substances. Since they are based on the same fundamental patterns of carbon chemistry as the natural compounds, the new ones are often readily accepted into biochemical processes. They therefore can play an insidious4, destructive role in living things. In effect, the petrochemical industry produces substances that—like the fantasies of human society invaded by look-alike but dangerous aliens—cunningly enter the chemistry of life, and attack it.
10. a suicidal war
11. "environmental crisis" —the array of critical unsolved problems ranging from local toxic dumps to the disruption of global climate —is a product of the drastic mismatch between the cyclical, conservative, and self-consistent processes of the ecosphere and the linear, innovative, but ecologically disharmonious processes of the technosphere.
No. The extreme interpretations of the relationship between the two spheres that human society occupies —and a sometimes bewildering array of intermediate positions —is compelling evidence that we have not yet understood how the two systems have come into conflict and, as a result, are unable as yet to resolve that conflict. understanding the war between the ecosphere and the technosphere —as distinct fr om reacting to it —is the only path to peace.。