The study shows “A growing economy and lower unemployment should eventually give U.S. workers a long-deserved raise (and so should rising labor costs overseas that persuade more companies to hire domestically). But improvements in technology and the ability of companies to hire locally as they chase worldwide demand are just two factors that should restrain any optimism we can keep corporate profits from gobbling up more and more of the economy. ”

Derek Thompson

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/corporate-profits-are-eating-the-economy/273687/

There are fewer American workers today than there used to be, due to corporate profits. Now, job loss has reached news highs because companies are able to produce more with fewer workers due to new technologies, the cost of labor is lowered because of globalization, and big finance is taking over the economy.

Yolpichara Lim

Income Inequality

The poor just keep getting poorer and the rich just keep getting richer, it’s a vicious

cycle.

“The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.”–Theodore RooseveltU.S. President (1858-1919)

Race and Politics in Obama’s Presidency

The power and symbolism of Obama’s election is compromised by the extent to which his presidency has been shaped by white expectations and white racism.

Chen

The Great Depression vs. Financial Meltdown Over Production Unequal Distribution of Wealth High Tariffs War Debts Stock market December 5, 1929:

“The Government’s business is in sound condition.” — Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury

Recession Until Depression

Ryan Barbera

Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson

- Inspired EPA, Clean Air & Water

Acts

WOMEN VOTERS

IN 1962 : 45%

The Feminine Mystique (1963) - Betty Freidan

- INFLUENCED POLICY ON REGULATION OF PESTICIDES

- CREDITED WITH CREATING CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM - FOUGHT FOR

PRO-CHOICE LEGISLATION

- PUSHED FOR WOMEN TO BECOME LARGEST

VOTING DEMOGRAPHIC

ECOFEMINIST PIONEER:LEADS TO EXPANDING # OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE

JOHN KENNEY

Criticism of Rachel Carson

“A spinster was so worried about genetics” -Erza Taft Benson

“As for insects, isn't it just like a woman to be scared to death of a few little bugs!” -Letter to the New Yorker

Whitney-Perry

Landfill Energy Recovery“As part of our commitment to creating cleaner, greener communities, we’re continually researching, developing and implementing innovative technologies to help us preserve and conserve our natural resources.”

- Ted Neura, senior director of sustainable business planning and development for Republic Services.

Thoreau’s Walden vs. Carson’s Silent Spring Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

“…To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I

came to die, discovered that I had not lived… I wanted to live deep and suck all marrow out of life… to know it by experience and to be able to give a true account of it

in my next excursion…”.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

“To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right…Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song . . . Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as a springtime without a robin’s song?”

Christopher Cerovac

Silent Spring’s Impact• Book published in 1962.

• Carson started giving testimony to Congress in 1963.

• Her work helped to get DDT banned in 1972.

• Should DDT have been banned?

• Carson took lots of criticism for using “soft science.”

• “Today, millions of people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm.”

Tim Lawlor