25 Aug Looking at our available evidence within the years 1855 to 1930, what would you consider to be the most promising movements for humanity overall and the most destructive for humanity overall?
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Exam Question: Looking at our available evidence within the years 1855 to 1930, what would you consider to be the most promising movements for humanity overall and the most destructive for humanity overall? Write a 3 or more page paper in your own words listing your findings in order. Show all the specific statistics, events, and examples that leads you to your conclusions.
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The 1930s is the period over which the industrialized World experienced its most severe economic downturn. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, Americans exhibited a tremendous interest in the globe’s future. Scholars and innovators invented new things that they believed could help humanity. The automobiles, airplanes, skyscrapers, and advances in biology and physics all gave the World a valid reason to hope for a better future.
Even though the stock market suffered a severe crash in 1929, unaffected organizations like the Rockefeller Institute kept sponsoring the scientific research that earned the 1930’s the name “the machine age.” Atomic physics, as well as synthetic materials and plastics, saw significant advances within this decade. A new group is referring to its members as technocrats were borne out of these activities. These individuals believed that scientific progress would offer the tools to solve societal problems and stop the Depression. They supported the idea of machines taking over some routine human jobs to increase efficiency and productivity.
In that atmosphere, Sir Franklin Whittle patented his turbojet engine at the start of the decade. While measuring a radio antenna in 1930, a group of naval researchers inadvertently discovered radar (Science News). Within the same year, Clyde Tombaugh discovered the ninth planet, Pluto. In 1932, Edwin Land developed the first synthetic polarizer that aided the invention of the Polaroid camera. German Focke Wulf FW 61 – the first helicopter – was then made in 1936 (Science News). Two years later, Dr. Roy Plunkett invented the polytetrafluoroethylene that is used in modern-day non-stick pans. Prefabrication and rapid construction were also effects of the development of industrial machines in the 1930s.
Other than technology, several different scientific discoveries were made within this period. In May 1930, Alexander Fleming discovered a constituent for fighting germs from Mold. It was named Penicillin and became critical to combating battlefield infections. In 1936, another family of antibiotics called sulfanilamides was produced for the first time in Germany and exhibited promising results in the U.S, trials against Streptococcus contagions (Zimmerman). In 1934, Irene and Frederic Joliot created the first “human-made radioactivity” by using alpha particles to bombard boron (Zimmerman). Concisely, science in the 1930s was basic.
The Union of Scientists concerned and over 1,700 independent scientists, including most Nobel Prize winners, released an alarm to humanities in 1992, a twenty-five-year-old document (Krystal, 76). These professionals called on society to curb the degradation of the atmosphere. They warned that a drastic shift in our stewardship of the Earth and our lives is inevitable if we are to escape immense human suffering.’ In their manifesto, they showed that people conflicted with the natural World. They expressed concern about existing, imminent, and future harm on the Earth, including ozone depletion, access to freshwater, depletion of marine life, ocean dead zones, loss of forest, degradation of biodiversity, climate change, and the continuing growth of human populations. They believed that there was an urgent need for radical changes to avoid our current approach’s impact.
The writers of the 1992 declaration feared that humanity pushed the Planet’s ecosystems beyond its capacity to maintain the web of life. They explained how much of the biosphere could tolerate without severe and permanent harm is quickly approached. They called for the human population to be balanced, describing how our large number — which has risen by a further 2 billion since 1992 to 35% — is stressing Earth in terms of immense attempts to create a sustained future (Crist et al. 2017). They requested that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions be minimized, fossil fuels phased out, deforestation reduced, and biodiversity crash reversed.
We look back at their alert on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their call and assess the human response by examining available time-series data. Since 1995, the human race has made no progress on the general way to fix these anticipated environmental problems except for the stabilization of stratospheric ozone levels, and, appallingly, the majority of these are getting worse. The current climate change trajectory is highly troubling because GMWs from fossil fuel usage, deforestation, and agriculture is rising. We have now unleashed an outbreak of mass extinction, the 6th of which can be annihilated or at least doomed to death by the end of this century, over approximately 540 million years. Moreover, in about 540 million years, we launched the sixth mass extinction event in which many of the known forms of life could be destroyed, or at least doomed, by the end of the 21st century (Zizzamia, 36).
When most of the politicians who have been elected respond to the challenges, scientists, media, and laypeople must demand that their governments behave decisively as a moral imperative for present and future generations. Doubtless, resistance can be resolved with a wave of concerted militant actions and elected leaders inspired to do the right thing. It is also time for re-examination and reform of our lifestyles, including reducing our reproduction of fossil fuels, meat, and other resources per capita (ideally up to the full degree of substitution).
The rapid global reduction of ozone-depleting substances shows that we can make significant progress when we act actively. We have taken steps to minimize hunger and poverty (www.worldbank.org). Other notable developments include the rapid decrease in the fertility rate in many regions for girls and women, the encouraging decrease in the deforestation rate in many areas. We have learned a great deal since 1992, but there are still far from enough steps in the urgent improvements in environmental policies, human behavior, and global inequalities.
Humanity must practice a more environmentally friendly alternative to companies to avoid widespread suffering and devastating biodiversity loss (Blaikie, Piers, and, Jeanrenaud, 55). Twenty-five years ago, the World’s top scientists made this prescription well, but their warning was not listened to in most cases. It will soon be too late to switch from our failed route, and time is running out. In our lifetime and our institutions, we must accept that the World is our only home with all its life.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the 1930s was a period of immense scientific advancement. Discoveries were made in several sectors. Even though some of the innovations were accidental, they all found application in the lives of humans. Without the simple inventions of this period, the significant scientific gains made in the 21st century in IT, Engineering, and Medicine might never have been realized.
Works Cited
Science News. “90th Anniversary Issue: 1930s.” Science News, 6 Aug. 2015,
www.sciencenews.org/article/90th-anniversary-issue-1930s.
Zimmerman, Brittany. “The Science and Technology of the 1930’s.” Prezi.com, 21 Mar. 2011,
prezi.com/_qpownaj14u2/the-science-and-technology-of-the-1930s/.
Blaikie, Piers, and Sally Jeanrenaud. “Biodiversity and human welfare.” Social change and conservation (1997): 46-70.
Zizzamia, Daniel Francis. Making the West malleable: Coal, geohistory, and Western expansion, 1800–1920. Montana State University, 2015.
Krystal, Arthur. Except when I write: reflections of a recovering critic. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Requirements: 1 page
Type:Essay (any type)
Service:Writing
Pages:4 pages / 1100 words (Double spacing)
Level:College
Language:English (US)
Deadline: 7AM
Topic:Modern World History
Subject:History
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