period 7
synthesis
Because of the horrible Dust Bowl in Period 7, Period 8 was a time where new developments in agriculture helped prevent farms from depleting and helped keep the natural disasters under control. There were pesticides and farming methods that were developed to improve farming. Pesticide treadmills were created where farmers regularly apply the pesticide to their crops because it had become part of the growing cycle for the crop. Even though Americans tried to make the best of the situation during the Dust Bowl such as President Franklin Roosevelt creating acts as conservation efforts, these pesticides and also greenhouse gasses worsened the environment. We did not create the Dust Bowl, but we did create greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels. America burns fossil fuels because that is how we get energy for manufacturing, for heating our homes, for fueling our cars, and for turning on our televisions. Some of this oil that Americans burn comes from Egypt, the site of the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956. The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 was the beginning of a new era in Europe, America, and the Middle East. It was an invasion of Egypt by Israel then by the United Kingdom and France. The Egyptian president at the time was President Abdul Nasser, and he nationalized, or transferred a branch of commerce or industry from private to state control, the Suez Canal Company which had been controlled by France and Britain as a shareholder. Their abundant supply of oil has created more access for the United States to burn into the environment which if not stopped, could worsen global warming, and could create too much ozone which would hurt animal ecosystems.