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    1. We need all the help we can get, and historical perspective is an essential aid to living in and through the present to a better future.

      Knowledge from the historical perspective is essential in order to make today and the rest of the future better. It is important to understand how history everyday can be learned from to improve and acknowledge that the world is constantly evolving, but there are ways to make progress for the better.

    2. it is to point out that history is living and relevant to current concerns, not the “dead hand of the past,” as some might see it

      History can be viewed as only past occurrences, but we are living in history now and I think that it is interesting that everyday, people are creating history.

    3. young people eroded and many migrated to urban areas, fueling a sense of unfairness and anger toward those who allowed those downward pressures to continue to build

      People have been and still to this day are upset with the fact the world is continuing to build and take down nature to make more room for the people that are moving into the area. This is upsetting people to the point that they move to a new environment that would satisfy their needs and interests.

    4. From that initial realization that humans are forcing global climate change, we have now come to understand that humans are changing, overwhelming, or displacing other global processes of nature as well, on scales never before seen in human history.

      Humans are initiating change within the world and environment. Humans are wanting change and creating new opportunities to make the planet different whether it’s for the good or bad. There are thoughts and ideas that are being put to use which is then changing the world, which is then going to be looked at as history.