History influences people’s decisions that would affect the sustainability and climate change issues for the country. The sustainability includes three core parts, which keep the country sustainable which are social, economic, and environmental. Currently, sustainability and climate change are the trending issues that are waiting to be resolved. But in order for them to be resolved, to make the best decision on how to combat these problems, it is good to reference their country’s history to make their decision. In Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty!, gives a brief history about American history, also including the what happened during the New Deal. During the era of the New Deal (1932-1940), Theodore Roosevelt was the president at the time. During
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The environmental issues that happened during the first New Deal are the lessons that need to be taken into effect to resolve the problem with climate change, a problem people have today. With the environmental issues, Roosevelt wanted to preserve lands such as national parks, so he established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)8. With the CCC, this is was a way to help preserve the environment such as national parks. This environmental issue in the end, although ended in 1941, was able to provide work for the unemployed who were able to get paid thirty dollars monthly after the program ended. In this case, this was not a matter of identifying a problem then resolving it, but an issue that he wanted so he made it happen hoping it would benefit the future. Roosevelt wanted to prevent deforestation so he did what he did to reach his goal of preserving the environment. What the current generation should learn from the New Deal is to make changes now in order to prevent problems from happening in the future. The current generation did not anticipate the problem of climate change ever being a problem, but that is why there is climate change right now. Because of climate change, there is a change in the ocean acidity due to the overproduction of carbon dioxide9. What the current generation is facing right now is future shock. They are experiencing something that came earlier than expected or …show more content…
An issue during the Second New Deal was how welfare was being seen socially. When the Social Security Act(1) was established in 1935, it was meant for people who needed that financial dependence from the government11. But this soon became a social problem when the public assistance programs set the eligibility standard at a low rate for Social Security. This caused a discrepancy with the social part in sustainability because there was discrimination when distributing welfare and came with the stigma of “unearned government assistance” whoever was on welfare12. This stigma became a problem because other people who would view people would people on welfare was insufficient or taking advantage of the government. But the welfare is not the problem but the stigma of being on welfare. During the Second Deal, a majority black Americans were still treated unfairly and they were the main group being coined as the group on welfare that took advantage of the government’s assistance. The issue of welfare may have been solved, but excluding a group and making a stereotype for them is what corrupts sustainability in social issues. Social Security was mainly established for the white Americans, but at the time, it bothered them if black Americans got the same benefit as them. This exclusion is what makes a divide in society. This historical discrepancy is what the
The environmental issues that happened during the first New Deal are the lessons that need to be taken into effect to resolve the problem with climate change, a problem people have today. With the environmental issues, Roosevelt wanted to preserve lands such as national parks, so he established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)8. With the CCC, this is was a way to help preserve the environment such as national parks. This environmental issue in the end, although ended in 1941, was able to provide work for the unemployed who were able to get paid thirty dollars monthly after the program ended. In this case, this was not a matter of identifying a problem then resolving it, but an issue that he wanted so he made it happen hoping it would benefit the future. Roosevelt wanted to prevent deforestation so he did what he did to reach his goal of preserving the environment. What the current generation should learn from the New Deal is to make changes now in order to prevent problems from happening in the future. The current generation did not anticipate the problem of climate change ever being a problem, but that is why there is climate change right now. Because of climate change, there is a change in the ocean acidity due to the overproduction of carbon dioxide9. What the current generation is facing right now is future shock. They are experiencing something that came earlier than expected or …show more content…
An issue during the Second New Deal was how welfare was being seen socially. When the Social Security Act(1) was established in 1935, it was meant for people who needed that financial dependence from the government11. But this soon became a social problem when the public assistance programs set the eligibility standard at a low rate for Social Security. This caused a discrepancy with the social part in sustainability because there was discrimination when distributing welfare and came with the stigma of “unearned government assistance” whoever was on welfare12. This stigma became a problem because other people who would view people would people on welfare was insufficient or taking advantage of the government. But the welfare is not the problem but the stigma of being on welfare. During the Second Deal, a majority black Americans were still treated unfairly and they were the main group being coined as the group on welfare that took advantage of the government’s assistance. The issue of welfare may have been solved, but excluding a group and making a stereotype for them is what corrupts sustainability in social issues. Social Security was mainly established for the white Americans, but at the time, it bothered them if black Americans got the same benefit as them. This exclusion is what makes a divide in society. This historical discrepancy is what the