The Malthusian Flux theory is all about the population of a country or community. So really there's not much of a connection currently. But the root problem of the BLM movement, the slave trade might. This is because there was a lot of death assosiated with the slave trade especially when enslaved people were put on boats to go to America. This could somewhat constitute as a disaster for the African people although I would more so call it a horrific purposeful enslavement of a race of people.
The Malthusian Flux theory connects to my kahiau project issue, rising cost of living. This is because that issue directly connects to widespread poverty, one of the ways the theory states that the population is controlled. Colonization and imperialism connects specifically to this issue in Hawaiʻi. This is because in Hawaiʻi, colonization and imperialism is the very reason for our rising costs of living because our islands were colonized by America. World War connects to our kahiau project issue because it’s a world issue and while we may not go to war over it there is definitely civil unrest about it.
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Gandhi used both civil disobedience and legislation to combat the oppression of Indian people by Britain. He led protests, as well as connecting the Indian people back to their culture. He taught them how to make salt and textile because there was a large tax on salt. He got laws and bills passed like the pass bill in order to help his movement have legal ground. This is similar to the Black Lives Movement in many ways. Of course the civil disobedience, protests, and the boycotting of different stores based on those stores political allegiance. As well we try to use legislation by creating and signing petitions and messing with Trump in any way possible.
I think that the Gandhi's approach is a pretty good way to be able to have reform and to fight especially a government who holds power over a people. You can see that by attacking the issue in multiple ways, it creates more of a foot hold for the movement to gain some ground. As for the Mauna movement, I think that we should do more to work the legislative side of it, get bills passed and lobby for bills and laws that will help us in the protection of the Mauna. I haven’t heard of the Mauna movement in awhile as it seems all attention is on the BLM movement but I think that they should continue to show civil disobedience and continue to stay at the entrance of the mauna. Perhaps the method of using Guns Germs and Steel to conquer indigineous civilizations could be considered the first form of poverty. Say a more powerful continent namely Europe, came to somewhere like Papua New Guinea and used the method of guns, germs, and steel to conquer their civilization. After Europe had done the conquering, they would leave the native civilizations in a state of poverty, death, plague. Due to the killing, indirectly through disease and directly through guns and murder, these civilizations population would be very low, which means less people to grow or collect food, less people to carry out all the things which need to be done in order to continue the functioning of their civilization which would probably lead to famine. Furthermore it connects to the UN Development Goal sustainable cities and communities because in order to be a sustainable community, you need to be a fully and well functioning community.
This connects of course to things happening in modern society especially recent events. You can see 2 out of these three conquering techniques happening to society right now. Of course in this case, as far as we know, Covid 19 is not purposeful. Nevertheless this is germs and as you can see it is definitely a very powerful technique as it has put a stop to many things around the world. You can see the effects of how germs can cause poverty around the world but especially in Yemen. Where they are facing a famine due to food shortages caused by Covid 19. And of course you can see the purposeful use of guns or rather rubber bullets while not usually fatal can cause a lot of damage and other crowd control techniques. Being used by the government because of the BLM riots. These tactics are used to instill fear in us and not want to join or continue going to these protests. You can see the heavy effects of these tactics in modern day life very clearly. I think that the agricultural revolution affected the issue of poverty. People started growing food rather than hunting for it and then eventually not everyone would need to grow food because there would be a surplus (Green 2012). Then food and things started having a value and at first it would start with trading possibly around the time of the silk road when there was lots of trading (Green, 2012) and then evolve into food costing money. Eventually with modern day problems with money this began to be an issue because most food is too expensive for people to buy and they have too low a salary. An issue we’ve seen all throughout history whether it be people buying slaves and not paying them at all, or paying people next to nothing. This is just one of the issues within the issue of the rising cost of living. Also with the industrial revolution as people started to move further away from farms and into cities (Green, 2012), they started to expect not to have to do things like make houses or farm their own crops or anything like that. Once housing became a thing that most people bought instead of made themselves, this eventually turned into people not being able to afford houses in modern day.
The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1[Video file]. (2012). Retrieved 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&t=249s The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9[Video file]. (2012). Retrieved 2020, from https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5ee128b83115e63f0b904038/watch Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32[Video file]. (2012). Retrieved 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c This issue mainly presents itself as homelessness and high rates of poverty. Which you see all over the world. Including a particularly bad case of homelessness and poverty in Hawai’i. Some solutions that are being tried to help this are things like food stamps, the Hawai’i Food Bank, groups like Habitat for Humanity who are building houses for low income families, low income housing, etc. Really though these solutions aren’t going to solve the problem. It’s like you’re remedying the problem when it comes up to the surface but in order to actually solve it, you need to go to the root source of the issue. Not just food costs too much, let's give people food stamps so they can buy it. It has to be food costs too much and some people can’t buy it, why is that? Then you see that they can’t buy it not only because food costs too much but because they aren’t getting paid enough. And then you ask why aren’t they getting paid enough and realize that it’s because minimum wage is too low and that we need to be moving more money into the working classes pockets instead of just the upper class. And then that’s where you need to be solving the problem. The issue of poverty that my group is choosing to study is the issue of rising living costs. This issue connects to the UN Development Goal sustainable cities and communities. We looked at the word sustainable in that goal in a bit of a different way. For this problem sustainable means being able to sustain a cost of living that is attainable to all classes of people. It means households being able to sustain a working wage that allows them to keep their homes. One job should be enough for someone to sustain their home.
I connect with this issue because it is happening here in Hawaiʻi. Rising costs of living has been an ongoing problem in our islands. This problem might not be that easy to spot at first. It’s the gradual nature of this problem that makes it so difficult to conquer. The other difficult thing about this problem is that the cause of the problem is a greed for money. People and corporations are trying to get as much money as possible while giving as little back as possible which is why the cost of living continues to rise without the minimum wage increasing with it. Some ways this issue is trying to be fixed is by setting up more low income housing and nonprofits building houses for free but to really fix this issue we need to go to the source. The main areas that need to be changed to solve this problem is, the high price of houses, the high price of food, the high price of home essentials, the high price of health care, insurance and other basic needs of living, and the low value of minimum wage. Mission Vision. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.honoluluhabitat.org/mission-vision AUW OVERVIEW. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.auw.org/auw-overview |