Mother Nature wrought her fury upon the poor farmer; through grasshoppers, floods, and droughts. But farmers placed the blame of their problems on two key areas: the money supply and the railroads. Deflation became a major problem in the 1800s for famers. Suffering more and more losses, year after year, many farmers were forced into foreclosure by their “Eastern Master (Doc D).” The main reason farmers were blaming this “Eastern Master” was that no one seemed to be aiding them in their plight apart from certain specific institutions, such as the Populist Party and the Grange. So they naturally turned to the Populist Party, who felt that silver was the answer, and the refusal to coin it a “vast conspiracy against mankind” across “two continents” and subsequently supported legislation such as The Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and a rebuke of the Coinage Act of 1873 (Doc A).
16% of the 1.8million who died at war were conscripted and all families were somehow impacted by the war, which consequently led to a decline in the popularity of the Royal Family. People famously said “what family is going to survive war with all six sons alive?” in reference to the Kaiser’s six sons as awareness was spreading that there was an inequality of sacrifice among classes. The divisions between classes which had previously existed were now even greater. Peasantry and rural producers felt alienated by government regulations and were now hampered by the lack of labour and there was also huge resentment towards the Junkers who maintained their tax privileges until 1916. The urban working class also suffered due to the rise of the black market, which was the source of
These unstable rainfalls caused economical and environmental problems within both groups living in Jamestown. Cold and dry winter created the era called the “starving time,” these crops didn’t have time to grow during the summer because of a huge lack of rain. If the Powhatan’s couldn’t trade the crops that were
According to Everglades.org, they’ve “contributed to nearly 70 percent of extinctions in the United States” and are the “primary cause of species endangerment.” The water itself is a major cause of decline to the area, firstly because of poor water management leading to water levels being too low or too high at the wrong times has caused a decline in many species. Secondly, poor water quality has had devastating consequences. The pollution and an abundance of toxins and nutrients has helped to kill off many living things in the
The nomadic hunter-gatherers, Penan are one of the last such groups in south East Asia. Out of the 10,000 Penan living in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Borneo, only 20 nomadic people are left. Its been estimated that at least 70% of Sarawak’s primary forest has been licensed for logging and in some places there have been two or three logging passes in the last twenty five years. The Penan tribe is not protected because there is thought to be too much wealth in the forest such as wood and mining and food and the government is poor so they need all the wealth they can get and they don’t see much point in looking after one small tribe when it is better to look after the whole country first. The Penan tribe is a threatened culture due to deforestisation and globalization because their culture is being ‘brought’ by logging companies trading them new technology for land and local knowledge.
Many areas of the taiga have been harvested for wood. Only eight percent of the taiga biome regions are protected from development in Russia and Canada. Removing large numbers of trees requires loud, large equipment that pollutes the area and endangers wildlife by removing homes and vegetation from animals. Another problem that has emerged in recent years have been insect plagues including the Spruce bark beetle and the Aspen leaf miner. Animals are also being endangered by hunting, pollution and logging and some less important
The workforce had been destroyed -- farms were abandoned and buildings crumbled. The price of labor skyrocketed in the face of worker shortage, and the cost of goods rose. The price of food did not go up, perhaps because the population had declined so much. • Short term effects: One- third of Europe population was wiped out. Large piles of dead, rotten bodies lying in the streets, spreading the disease.
Its cumulative effect is as devastating as earth quakes, floods, forest fires and hurricanes. More people die each year from poverty-related causes than the combined casualties from war, natural disasters and homicide....The impact of poverty, while less dramatic, less visible and rarely reported, is nonetheless lethal...Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction in our midst.”(1) Raising the minimum wage will help to narrow the growing and increasingly devastating gap between the rich and the poor. It is especially shameful to have such a large percentage of our citizens living in poverty amidst the extreme affluence of our nation. The existence of extreme poverty and extreme wealth harms everyone. It decreases our personal sense of security – the rich must live in gated communities to keep out the poor.
Another big effect of deforestation is the fact that it causes soil erosion. It is estimated that 15,000 acres of topsoil are washed away each year. Which lowers the productivity of the land so it can't be used for growing crops or anything. In 1999 the government of Haiti tried to limit this deforestation, by developing a 15-year Environment Action plan, this plan proposed to by trying to develop an alternative fuel source. The plan is failing due to political instability and lack of
No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.’...On the West Coast keepers have seen bee population losses in the 30 to 60 percent range. On the East Coast and Texas it gets as high as 70%” (Direct 68). This loss of bee pollination will become a problem for farmers all over the United States in 2012 when the farmers find hat their crops are barren because they weren’t pollinated. This could lad to spiked food prices and a need to import excess food from other countries, causing famine across the United States. The current event that is most directly linked to 2012 is the spike in natural disasters in the US in recent years.