Health and Safety

Protecting Alaskan wild land because of the excessive expansion and energy use due to the growing economy.

"In 1987, genetic fingerprinting was used in criminal court for the first time in the trial of a man accused of unlawful intercourse with a mentally handicapped 14-year-old female who gave birth to a baby."
Joseph Wambaugh, The Blooding (New York, New York: A Perigord Press Book, 1989), 316.

"As with any war, there are the veterans to consider. The veterans of the Persian Gulf War experienced a war unlike any other. The technology used made it a modern war—a new kind of war. That technology brought with it some new side affects. Chemical warfare was not new, but new chemicals gave the Persian Gulf War a new twist.

Gulf War veterans were subjected to chemical pollutants from burning oil fields, garbage dumps, and insecticides. They also received inoculations to protect against germ warfare. Thousands of veterans have reported ailments ranging from fatigue and headache to aching joints and lack of concentration."
"The War in the Gulf, 1980-1992 (Overview)." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 23 May 2013.

Y2K greatly showed the danger that technology could cause and the extreme dependency on technology that the whole world (particularly the United States) has.