This week in History 8, we are learning about the Progressive Era. A time when individuals began to open their eyes to issues in our society and brought them to light. There were many progressives who had their eye set on an issue, a transformation that they thought needed to take place. There will always be improvements that our society could take. Many pressing issues that took place during the Progressive Era are still prevalent today such as child labor, environmental protection, and farming monopolies.
Our world is set off of competition, specifically between companies to always try and improve and better things before others. However, we sometimes get lost in the shuffle of competition amongst ourselves and turn to questionable "solutions." In order to achieve cheep labor and higher profits, some have turned to child labor. Out mindset was not set this way and I believe that child labor should not be permitted; it demonstrates selfishness that comes out in humans in order to better themselves at the expense of others.
I believe that there is not enough awareness about environmental protection, another large issue. Because of many things such as pollution, we are slowly destroying our Earth, the place we call home. I think that as humans who live on Earth, we should begin to take more initiative in the pressing issue.
In my opinion farming monopolies are also a large issue in this society. They create pollution and unfair treatment of animals as well. While producing things in mass production, we are loosing quality in our produce and damaging our Earth at the same time. Although it can be difficult to keep up with our growing population, there are other ways to produce a sustainable form of nutrition for people.
I would love to know what you guys think are the most prevalent issues in society today if you could only choose three.
See you in the next blog post!
Nina
