Category Archives: Week 2: Cold War Origins

During the 1960s and 70’s there was a considerable concern for environmental protection. Many concerned citizens feared that major American companies would violate the Wilderness Act of 1964. The wilderness act of 1964 was established to protect federal lands from being used for developing and using motorized vehicles. Many politicians took advantage of this concernContinue reading “Week 13”

Global warming has been a problem on Earth since the rise of the industrial revolution. Climate change is the long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns across the world. The research regarding global warming didn’t get started till the late 1890s. Humans contribute to global warming the most through the burning of fossil fuels andContinue reading “Week 15 Post”

In Joshua Howe’s book Behind the Curve, he speaks to why we are behind in the Keeling Curve both in political action and in the actual science of CO2. Back in 1958 scientist Charles Keeling investigated CO2 in our atmosphere leading to the Keeling curve. As stated by Howe, “The Keeling Curve represents the measuredContinue reading “economics on a dying planet”

There were several reasons why the Bush Sr. administration was hesitant to sign the Kyoto Protocol. One of the main concerns was the potential economic impact of the agreement. The Kyoto Protocol would have required industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a certain percentage below their 1990 levels, which would have requiredContinue reading “Week 15 Post”

According to the reading, the George H.W. Bush administration was hesitant to sign the Kyoto Protocol due to the fact that there was extensive disagreement on what responsibilities and emissions targets that the United States should have been reaching (Howe, 2014). To be specific, the reading on page 187 says, “In the United States, theContinue reading “Blogpost #12”

Mankind has abused the earths resources throughout history. However many failed to realize the impact of extracting such resources. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many environmentalist movements began to gain traction throughout the United States. The rise of conservatism within the United States in the 1980s increased environmental awareness. The Kyoto Protocol was an internationalContinue reading “The “Tree Hugger” movement”

There was a lot going on during the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. The United States especially had a tough time agreeing with everything listed. The Bush Sr. Administration did not like a certain part of the protocol, they negotiated with other countries to try and change that said part. But many knew that theseContinue reading “The Rise of Global Warming and Climate Change”

Throughout Andrew Bacevich’s article “The Limits of Power,” Bacevich argues that 9/11 is not the cause of the never-ending conflict in the Middle East. Bacevich argues, “Seeing themselves as peaceful people, Americans remain wedded to the conviction that the conflicts in which they find themselves embroiled are not of their own making.” (page 4) RatherContinue reading “freedom>everything”

Yes, the things that leaders did in the Middle East were not moral or right in our eyes as U.S. citizens. But the U.S. still found it necessary to involve itself in many conflicts in the Middle East. This led to thousands of U.S. lives lost in wars that we could have avoided. The reasonContinue reading “Is it All About War on Terror?”

Andrew Bacevich argues that the U.S. finds itself enmeshed in never-ending conflict in the Middle East not because of combating terrorism but rather due to the pursuit of broader geopolitical goals such as maintaining access to Middle Eastern oil reserves, protecting Israel, and projecting U.S. power and influence in the region.The U.S. has been involvedContinue reading “Week 14”