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Who made the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions … It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they, more than we, will wreak the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Rivers on fire\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Today, our planet needs all the love it can get. From the increasingly severe impacts of climate change to rapid deforestation and species extinction, there is broad scientific consensus that we’re up against a mounting number of potentially catastrophic challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence notwithstanding, many of America’s strongest environmental protections are under attack in Washington, a battle that’s grown more divisive and hyperpolitical than perhaps ever before. The Trump administration and Republican congressional leaders have demonstrated their determination to weaken or flat-out eliminate many long-standing regulations and regulatory agencies that they say kill jobs and impede economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For what it’s worth, though, the environmental outlook in the late 1960s wasn’t too rosy either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades of largely unregulated industrial and economic growth in the wake of World War II, the U.S. had managed to majorly muck up its air and water resources. Toxic effluent from factories frequently spilled into streams and rivers. Open spaces were used as dumping grounds. DDT and other synthetic chemicals contaminated natural habitats and water supplies. 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Among the 78 species is the bald eagle, America’s national bird.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>January 1969\u003c/strong>: A blowout at an offshore oil rig near Santa Barbara caused as much as \u003ca href=\"http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/45-years-after-santa-barbara-oil-spill-looking-historic-disaster-through-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">4.2 million gallons\u003c/a> of crude oil to spill into the Santa Barbara Channel and onto nearby beaches. It lasts for 10 straight days, becoming (at that point) the largest oil spill in American history. Today, it ranks only third, overtaken by the 1989 Exxon Valdez and 2010 Deepwater Horizon spills).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>June 1969\u003c/strong>: A particularly fetid industrial stretch of the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland bursts into flames (seriously) when oil-soaked debris in the water is ignited by sparks from a passing train.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/nlHiaZFvcXA\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>A movement begins\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As urban unrest and the anti-war movement ignited across the nation, environmental activism had yet to gain a strong foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the people really understood that in the lifetime of their children, they’re going to have destroyed the quality of the air and the water all over the world and perhaps made the globe unlivable in a half century, they’d do something about it. But this is not well understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a quote from Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who spearheaded a national day of awareness in the aftermath of these environmental disasters, .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 1969, Nelson formed a bipartisan congressional steering committee and enlisted Denis Hayes, a 25-year-old Harvard Law School dropout, to coordinate the initiative. Influenced by anti-war campus activism, Hayes sought to organize environmental teach-ins throughout the country to occur simultaneously on April 22, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Interestingly, an independent Earth Day effort had earlier been proposed by peace activist John McConnell during a 1969 UNESCO conference in San Francisco. McConnell reserved the date of March 21, 1970 — the first day of spring — a month prior to Hayes’ event.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a limited budget and no email or internet access, Hayes and a small group of organizers mailed out thousands of appeals, recruiting an army of young volunteers to organize local events in communities and campuses across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 30, 1969, the New York Times reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising concern about the ‘environmental crisis’ is sweeping the nation’s campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The first Earth Day\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Interviewed in the recent PBS documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/earthdays/player/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Days\u003c/a>, Hayes recalled the sentiment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lord knows what we thought we were doing. It was wild and exciting and out of control and the sort of thing that lets you know you’ve really got something big happening … What we were trying to do was create a brand-new public consciousness that would cause the rules of the game to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, an estimated 20 million people participated in that first Earth Day, a name coined by advertising guru \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/22/401540530/julian-koenig-well-known-adman-named-earth-day\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Koenig\u003c/a> (father of Sarah Koenig of “Serial” podcast fame).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/topics/earthday.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the NY Times article\u003c/a> from April 22, 1970]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/WbwC281uzUs?list=PL3480E41AA956A42B\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a huge high adrenaline effort that in the end genuinely changed things,” Hayes said. “Before (that), there were people that opposed freeways, people that opposed clear-cutting, or people worried about pesticides, (but) they didn’t think of themselves as having anything in common. After Earth Day they were all part of an environmental movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes’ assertions were affirmed by several national polls showing a rapid rise in the public’s concern about air and water resources. In the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=Xaw_LEGXnLgC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gallup+poll+1970+air+and+water&source=bl&ots=2VWCAqHwG0&sig=cHedWfHfSGwQged_dPXyHtrbjSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GEs1VfCRCJe3ogS7yoHIAQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=gallup%20poll%201970%20air%20and%20water&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup Opinion Index\u003c/a>, the percentage of respondents who considered air and water pollution a top national problem rose from 17 percent in 1969 to 53 percent by 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth Day the following year, an independent group launched an anti-litter public service announcement, known as the “Crying Indian,” which featured a white actor in a headdress, rowing a birch bark canoe and shedding a tear when he sees garbage strewn everywhere. Despite the ad’s culturally questionable premise, it proved enormously popular and is still considered one of the most successful public service announcements in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/9Dmtkxm9yQY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Unexpected allegiances\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>That brings us back to the first question of the quiz. The group most supportive of the first Earth Day organizing effort — financially and otherwise — was none other than the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/UAW.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1888 alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"UAW\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/UAW-300x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>A labor union not generally thought of for championing environmental causes, the UAW donated funds for the event and turned out volunteers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW President Walter Reuther pledged his union’s full support for Earth Day and for subsequent air quality legislation that the auto industry staunchly opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down?” he said. “What good is another week’s vacation if the lake you used to go to is polluted and you can’t swim in it and the kids can’t play in it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensing a political shift, General Motors president Edward Cole soon thereafter promised “pollution-free” cars by 1980. (That didn’t pan out so well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Nixon and the golden era of environmental regulation\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Remember the mystery quote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was said by President Richard Nixon during his 1970 State of the Union address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, that Nixon, the conservative Republican most commonly remembered for prolonging America’s involvement in Vietnam and resigning in disgrace over the Watergate scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nixon also oversaw the most sweeping environmental regulations in the nation’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the first Earth Day, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/\">National Environmental Policy Act\u003c/a>, which among other things, required environmental impact statements for major new building projects and developments. Nixon signed it into law on Jan. 1, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalism had never been one of Nixon’s major political priorities, but his administration — like the UAW — recognized the shifting political tide, as public outcry and media attention to environmental issues increased. It also didn’t hurt that at the time both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months, Nixon approved the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/\">Environmental Protection Agency \u003c/a>(EPA) and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003c/a>(NOAA). Later that year, he signed an extension of the Clean Air Act, requiring the newly formed EPA to create and enforce air regulations, which among other things led to the installation of catalytic converters on all cars sold in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of 1972, Nixon signed the Clean Water Act, Pesticide Control Act (which banned DDT) and Marine Mammal Protection Act. A year later, he also signed the Endangered Species Act and the Safe Water Drinking Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these bills were approved with bipartisan support in Congress, in some instances nearly unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a televised speech in 1972, Nixon said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking these actions not in some distant future, but now, because we know that it is now or never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental conditions in the United States began to slowly improve. Which is not to say there wasn’t strong political opposition and major lingering problems, But for a time — stretching through the Ford and Carter administrations — the pursuit of environmentalism maintained a strong bipartisan support. In the last year of his presidency, Carter even installed solar panels on the roof of the White House to promote renewable energy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Green honeymoon ends\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The economic slowdown in the late 1970s swept in a tide of political change. In 1981, a year into his first term as president, Ronald Reagan appointed two aggressive defenders of industry to head the EPA and the Department of the Interior. As part of the “Reagan Revolution,” the administration moved rapidly to slash federal budgets, cutting the EPA’s funding by nearly half. Environmental enforcement was weakened considerably, as large swaths of public land were opened up for mining, drilling, grazing and other private uses. In a famous symbolic act, the solar panels on the White House roof were dismantled during his second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a number of significant environmental policies were advanced during Reagan’s administration, including the Superfund program to clean up hazardous waste sites, creation of wilderness areas and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Protocol\u003c/a>, an international agreement to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of substances responsible for its depletion, an effort that has been largely successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the anti-regulatory sentiment established during Reagan’s presidency took root. Efforts to strengthen the nation’s environmental protection laws grew increasingly partisan, a trend that continues today. The stream of regulatory measures approved by Nixon four decades ago would have scant chance of passing today’s Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his populist presidential campaign, President Trump repeatedly took aim at environmental regulations, promising to roll them back and attacking them as elitist, job-killing measures that showed just how out of touch politicians were with the true concerns of ordinary Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The benefit of tangible problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the first Earth Day had a key advantage: They were tackling visible, tangible problems impacting people’s daily lives. Rivers and lakes were too polluted for kids to swim in; parks were strewn with trash; people were getting sick from foul air. The evidence was indisputable, and it made it a whole lot easier to draw clear connections between quality of life and the urgent need for strong environmental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, many of today’s major environmental threats, like climate change — which threaten to be even more catastrophic — remain pretty abstract to many Americans. Unless you’ve been a victim of some disaster directly related to climate change — say, your house has been destroyed because of sea-level rise — it’s harder to connect the dots. And that makes it far more challenging to convey the sense of urgency necessary to mobilize the masses and pressure lawmakers to act. The abundance of scientific evidence showing that burning fossil fuels is the key driver of climate change, and the persistent warnings by scientists and activists of impending disaster if we continue along this course, have clearly not proven effective enough to push the kind of sweeping environmental policies enacted in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, refused to join the Kyoto Protocol, a 2005 international treaty approved by 180 nations requiring rapid cuts in emissions, and in 2010, Congress failed to pass comprehensive national climate change legislation. The U.S. did, however, sign on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark international climate accord in Paris in 2015\u003c/a>, in which it pledged to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions over the next decade. Environmental advocates and climate scientists generally agree that this marked a big step forward, but most say the deal doesn’t go far enough to prevent the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on how we think about climate change, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/climate-lab\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Lab\u003c/a>, a new video series from the University of California and Vox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, President Trump ran on a pledge to withdraw from the agreement entirely (although that now seems increasingly unlikely) and roll back the Obama administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants\" target=\"_blank\">regulations\u003c/a> that set the course to reach the carbon reduction goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which begs an ominous question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What degree of disaster is necessary to spur a new era of environmental change?\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2372,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":56},"modified":1524245146,"excerpt":"How the first Earth Day, 47 years ago, led to some of America's most sweeping environmental reforms. 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","title":"When Rivers Caught Fire: A Brief History of Earth Day (with Lesson Plan) | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"When Rivers Caught Fire: A Brief History of Earth Day (with Lesson Plan)","datePublished":"2018-04-20T09:00:56-07:00","dateModified":"2018-04-20T10:25:46-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-rivers-caught-fire-a-brief-history-of-earth-day","status":"publish","customPermalink":"2014/04/18/earth-day-a-brief-history/","sticky":false,"path":"/lowdown/21839/when-rivers-caught-fire-a-brief-history-of-earth-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300;\">Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/04/A-Brief-History-of-Earth-Day-lesson-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson Plan: Earth Day History (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>To start, a quick quiz (keep reading for answers):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Which labor group helped fund and organize the first Earth Day celebration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Who made the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions … It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they, more than we, will wreak the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Rivers on fire\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Today, our planet needs all the love it can get. From the increasingly severe impacts of climate change to rapid deforestation and species extinction, there is broad scientific consensus that we’re up against a mounting number of potentially catastrophic challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence notwithstanding, many of America’s strongest environmental protections are under attack in Washington, a battle that’s grown more divisive and hyperpolitical than perhaps ever before. The Trump administration and Republican congressional leaders have demonstrated their determination to weaken or flat-out eliminate many long-standing regulations and regulatory agencies that they say kill jobs and impede economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For what it’s worth, though, the environmental outlook in the late 1960s wasn’t too rosy either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades of largely unregulated industrial and economic growth in the wake of World War II, the U.S. had managed to majorly muck up its air and water resources. Toxic effluent from factories frequently spilled into streams and rivers. Open spaces were used as dumping grounds. DDT and other synthetic chemicals contaminated natural habitats and water supplies. And air pollution from factories and belching cars left many industrial areas shrouded in thick blankets of smog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a handful of the environmental catastrophes that happened within less than three years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>November 1966\u003c/strong>: In New York City, 168 people die of respiratory-related illnesses over a three-day period due primarily to horrendously poor air quality.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>March 1967\u003c/strong>: Interior Department Secretary Stewart L. Udall announces the first official list of endangered wildlife species. Among the 78 species is the bald eagle, America’s national bird.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>January 1969\u003c/strong>: A blowout at an offshore oil rig near Santa Barbara caused as much as \u003ca href=\"http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/45-years-after-santa-barbara-oil-spill-looking-historic-disaster-through-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">4.2 million gallons\u003c/a> of crude oil to spill into the Santa Barbara Channel and onto nearby beaches. It lasts for 10 straight days, becoming (at that point) the largest oil spill in American history. Today, it ranks only third, overtaken by the 1989 Exxon Valdez and 2010 Deepwater Horizon spills).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>June 1969\u003c/strong>: A particularly fetid industrial stretch of the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland bursts into flames (seriously) when oil-soaked debris in the water is ignited by sparks from a passing train.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nlHiaZFvcXA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nlHiaZFvcXA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>A movement begins\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As urban unrest and the anti-war movement ignited across the nation, environmental activism had yet to gain a strong foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the people really understood that in the lifetime of their children, they’re going to have destroyed the quality of the air and the water all over the world and perhaps made the globe unlivable in a half century, they’d do something about it. But this is not well understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a quote from Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who spearheaded a national day of awareness in the aftermath of these environmental disasters, .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 1969, Nelson formed a bipartisan congressional steering committee and enlisted Denis Hayes, a 25-year-old Harvard Law School dropout, to coordinate the initiative. Influenced by anti-war campus activism, Hayes sought to organize environmental teach-ins throughout the country to occur simultaneously on April 22, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Interestingly, an independent Earth Day effort had earlier been proposed by peace activist John McConnell during a 1969 UNESCO conference in San Francisco. McConnell reserved the date of March 21, 1970 — the first day of spring — a month prior to Hayes’ event.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a limited budget and no email or internet access, Hayes and a small group of organizers mailed out thousands of appeals, recruiting an army of young volunteers to organize local events in communities and campuses across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 30, 1969, the New York Times reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising concern about the ‘environmental crisis’ is sweeping the nation’s campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The first Earth Day\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Interviewed in the recent PBS documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/earthdays/player/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Days\u003c/a>, Hayes recalled the sentiment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lord knows what we thought we were doing. It was wild and exciting and out of control and the sort of thing that lets you know you’ve really got something big happening … What we were trying to do was create a brand-new public consciousness that would cause the rules of the game to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, an estimated 20 million people participated in that first Earth Day, a name coined by advertising guru \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/22/401540530/julian-koenig-well-known-adman-named-earth-day\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Koenig\u003c/a> (father of Sarah Koenig of “Serial” podcast fame).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/topics/earthday.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the NY Times article\u003c/a> from April 22, 1970]\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WbwC281uzUs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WbwC281uzUs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It was a huge high adrenaline effort that in the end genuinely changed things,” Hayes said. “Before (that), there were people that opposed freeways, people that opposed clear-cutting, or people worried about pesticides, (but) they didn’t think of themselves as having anything in common. After Earth Day they were all part of an environmental movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes’ assertions were affirmed by several national polls showing a rapid rise in the public’s concern about air and water resources. In the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=Xaw_LEGXnLgC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gallup+poll+1970+air+and+water&source=bl&ots=2VWCAqHwG0&sig=cHedWfHfSGwQged_dPXyHtrbjSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GEs1VfCRCJe3ogS7yoHIAQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=gallup%20poll%201970%20air%20and%20water&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup Opinion Index\u003c/a>, the percentage of respondents who considered air and water pollution a top national problem rose from 17 percent in 1969 to 53 percent by 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth Day the following year, an independent group launched an anti-litter public service announcement, known as the “Crying Indian,” which featured a white actor in a headdress, rowing a birch bark canoe and shedding a tear when he sees garbage strewn everywhere. Despite the ad’s culturally questionable premise, it proved enormously popular and is still considered one of the most successful public service announcements in history.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9Dmtkxm9yQY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9Dmtkxm9yQY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>Unexpected allegiances\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>That brings us back to the first question of the quiz. The group most supportive of the first Earth Day organizing effort — financially and otherwise — was none other than the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/UAW.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1888 alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"UAW\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/UAW-300x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>A labor union not generally thought of for championing environmental causes, the UAW donated funds for the event and turned out volunteers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW President Walter Reuther pledged his union’s full support for Earth Day and for subsequent air quality legislation that the auto industry staunchly opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down?” he said. “What good is another week’s vacation if the lake you used to go to is polluted and you can’t swim in it and the kids can’t play in it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensing a political shift, General Motors president Edward Cole soon thereafter promised “pollution-free” cars by 1980. (That didn’t pan out so well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Nixon and the golden era of environmental regulation\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Remember the mystery quote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was said by President Richard Nixon during his 1970 State of the Union address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, that Nixon, the conservative Republican most commonly remembered for prolonging America’s involvement in Vietnam and resigning in disgrace over the Watergate scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nixon also oversaw the most sweeping environmental regulations in the nation’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the first Earth Day, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/\">National Environmental Policy Act\u003c/a>, which among other things, required environmental impact statements for major new building projects and developments. Nixon signed it into law on Jan. 1, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalism had never been one of Nixon’s major political priorities, but his administration — like the UAW — recognized the shifting political tide, as public outcry and media attention to environmental issues increased. It also didn’t hurt that at the time both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months, Nixon approved the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/\">Environmental Protection Agency \u003c/a>(EPA) and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003c/a>(NOAA). Later that year, he signed an extension of the Clean Air Act, requiring the newly formed EPA to create and enforce air regulations, which among other things led to the installation of catalytic converters on all cars sold in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of 1972, Nixon signed the Clean Water Act, Pesticide Control Act (which banned DDT) and Marine Mammal Protection Act. A year later, he also signed the Endangered Species Act and the Safe Water Drinking Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these bills were approved with bipartisan support in Congress, in some instances nearly unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a televised speech in 1972, Nixon said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking these actions not in some distant future, but now, because we know that it is now or never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental conditions in the United States began to slowly improve. Which is not to say there wasn’t strong political opposition and major lingering problems, But for a time — stretching through the Ford and Carter administrations — the pursuit of environmentalism maintained a strong bipartisan support. In the last year of his presidency, Carter even installed solar panels on the roof of the White House to promote renewable energy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Green honeymoon ends\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The economic slowdown in the late 1970s swept in a tide of political change. In 1981, a year into his first term as president, Ronald Reagan appointed two aggressive defenders of industry to head the EPA and the Department of the Interior. As part of the “Reagan Revolution,” the administration moved rapidly to slash federal budgets, cutting the EPA’s funding by nearly half. Environmental enforcement was weakened considerably, as large swaths of public land were opened up for mining, drilling, grazing and other private uses. In a famous symbolic act, the solar panels on the White House roof were dismantled during his second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a number of significant environmental policies were advanced during Reagan’s administration, including the Superfund program to clean up hazardous waste sites, creation of wilderness areas and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Protocol\u003c/a>, an international agreement to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of substances responsible for its depletion, an effort that has been largely successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the anti-regulatory sentiment established during Reagan’s presidency took root. Efforts to strengthen the nation’s environmental protection laws grew increasingly partisan, a trend that continues today. The stream of regulatory measures approved by Nixon four decades ago would have scant chance of passing today’s Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his populist presidential campaign, President Trump repeatedly took aim at environmental regulations, promising to roll them back and attacking them as elitist, job-killing measures that showed just how out of touch politicians were with the true concerns of ordinary Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The benefit of tangible problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the first Earth Day had a key advantage: They were tackling visible, tangible problems impacting people’s daily lives. Rivers and lakes were too polluted for kids to swim in; parks were strewn with trash; people were getting sick from foul air. The evidence was indisputable, and it made it a whole lot easier to draw clear connections between quality of life and the urgent need for strong environmental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, many of today’s major environmental threats, like climate change — which threaten to be even more catastrophic — remain pretty abstract to many Americans. Unless you’ve been a victim of some disaster directly related to climate change — say, your house has been destroyed because of sea-level rise — it’s harder to connect the dots. And that makes it far more challenging to convey the sense of urgency necessary to mobilize the masses and pressure lawmakers to act. The abundance of scientific evidence showing that burning fossil fuels is the key driver of climate change, and the persistent warnings by scientists and activists of impending disaster if we continue along this course, have clearly not proven effective enough to push the kind of sweeping environmental policies enacted in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, refused to join the Kyoto Protocol, a 2005 international treaty approved by 180 nations requiring rapid cuts in emissions, and in 2010, Congress failed to pass comprehensive national climate change legislation. The U.S. did, however, sign on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark international climate accord in Paris in 2015\u003c/a>, in which it pledged to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions over the next decade. Environmental advocates and climate scientists generally agree that this marked a big step forward, but most say the deal doesn’t go far enough to prevent the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on how we think about climate change, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/climate-lab\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Lab\u003c/a>, a new video series from the University of California and Vox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, President Trump ran on a pledge to withdraw from the agreement entirely (although that now seems increasingly unlikely) and roll back the Obama administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants\" target=\"_blank\">regulations\u003c/a> that set the course to reach the carbon reduction goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which begs an ominous question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What degree of disaster is necessary to spur a new era of environmental change?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/21839/when-rivers-caught-fire-a-brief-history-of-earth-day","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_2399","lowdown_457","lowdown_572"],"tags":["lowdown_111","lowdown_2337","lowdown_2600"],"affiliates":["lowdown_2381"],"featImg":"lowdown_26637","label":"lowdown_2381"},"lowdown_30146":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_30146","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"30146","score":null,"sort":[1518826153000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1518826153,"format":"image","disqusTitle":"TIMELINE: A History of Political Controversy at the Olympics","title":"TIMELINE: A History of Political Controversy at the Olympics","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->[\u003ca href=\"#unique-identifier1\">Scroll down for the interactive timeline\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's kind of inevitable, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olympics brings together athletes from around the world, representing their countries, in an intensely competitive environment. It'd be a downright miracle if global politics didn't somehow seep into the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the modern-day Olympics began in 1896, the organizers' of the games have consistently urged participating nations to leave their political differences at the door. There's even a rule in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.olympic.org/athlete365/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015-06-02-Rule-50-Rio-2016-Olympic-Games-QA-EN-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Olympic Committee Charter\u003c/a> that shuns any kind of political demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sport can only contribute to development and peace if it’s not used as a stage for political dissent or for trying to score points in … political contests,” said Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “Have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful direct political dialogue and not on the backs of the athletes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't always worked out so well. In fact, the Olympics have long been used as an arena for political posturing, a global stage to voice dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 games are no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move this year, Russia was officially banned from participating in the 2018 winter games after evidence surfaced that many of its athletes had been doping for years as part of a clandestine state-sponsored program. A group of 169 Russian have been allowed to individually participate in the games, but are not officially representing their country. The athletes are simply being referred to as \"Olympic Athletes from Russia,.\" During the opening ceremony, they wore nondescript gray tracksuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a move of potential diplomacy (although one viewed with suspicion by the U.S.), North Korea participated in the games, despite its longstanding nuclear tensions with South Korea. In the opening ceremony, athletes from the two Koreas marched under the same flag. They also formed a joint Korean women's hockey team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This timeline-map, based, in part, on an older interactive produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/interactives/politics-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center on Foreign Relations\u003c/a>, tracks some of the many political tensions that have surfaced over the course of Olympic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"unique-identifier1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/52f6ac29a40773d4b276d006a9cc5ce8/politics-at-the-olympics/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"30146 https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=30146","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/02/16/timeline-a-history-of-political-controversy-at-the-olympics-2/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":368,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/52f6ac29a40773d4b276d006a9cc5ce8/politics-at-the-olympics/index.html"],"paragraphCount":13},"modified":1521759783,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"","title":"TIMELINE: A History of Political Controversy at the Olympics | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"TIMELINE: A History of Political Controversy at the Olympics","datePublished":"2018-02-16T16:09:13-08:00","dateModified":"2018-03-22T16:03:03-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"timeline-a-history-of-political-controversy-at-the-olympics-2","status":"publish","customPermalink":"2014/02/14/politics-at-olympics/","path":"/lowdown/30146/timeline-a-history-of-political-controversy-at-the-olympics-2","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->[\u003ca href=\"#unique-identifier1\">Scroll down for the interactive timeline\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's kind of inevitable, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olympics brings together athletes from around the world, representing their countries, in an intensely competitive environment. It'd be a downright miracle if global politics didn't somehow seep into the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the modern-day Olympics began in 1896, the organizers' of the games have consistently urged participating nations to leave their political differences at the door. There's even a rule in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.olympic.org/athlete365/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015-06-02-Rule-50-Rio-2016-Olympic-Games-QA-EN-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Olympic Committee Charter\u003c/a> that shuns any kind of political demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sport can only contribute to development and peace if it’s not used as a stage for political dissent or for trying to score points in … political contests,” said Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “Have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful direct political dialogue and not on the backs of the athletes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't always worked out so well. In fact, the Olympics have long been used as an arena for political posturing, a global stage to voice dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 games are no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move this year, Russia was officially banned from participating in the 2018 winter games after evidence surfaced that many of its athletes had been doping for years as part of a clandestine state-sponsored program. A group of 169 Russian have been allowed to individually participate in the games, but are not officially representing their country. The athletes are simply being referred to as \"Olympic Athletes from Russia,.\" During the opening ceremony, they wore nondescript gray tracksuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a move of potential diplomacy (although one viewed with suspicion by the U.S.), North Korea participated in the games, despite its longstanding nuclear tensions with South Korea. In the opening ceremony, athletes from the two Koreas marched under the same flag. They also formed a joint Korean women's hockey team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This timeline-map, based, in part, on an older interactive produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/interactives/politics-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center on Foreign Relations\u003c/a>, tracks some of the many political tensions that have surfaced over the course of Olympic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"unique-identifier1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/52f6ac29a40773d4b276d006a9cc5ce8/politics-at-the-olympics/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/30146/timeline-a-history-of-political-controversy-at-the-olympics-2","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_509","lowdown_2402","lowdown_457","lowdown_243","lowdown_2386"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_470","lowdown_152"],"featImg":"lowdown_11822","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_28389":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_28389","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"28389","score":null,"sort":[1518661856000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1518661856,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Gun Violence, Gun Control, Gun Rights: Where We Go from Here (with Lesson Plan)","title":"Gun Violence, Gun Control, Gun Rights: Where We Go from Here (with Lesson Plan)","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->On Wednesday, Feb. 14, a heavily armed young man opened fire in a high school in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people including 14 students and three school faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just seven weeks into 2018, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is already the 18th school shooting of the year, and the eighth resulting in injury or death, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Town for Gun Safety\u003c/a>, a gun control advocacy group that tracks these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cdiv>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300;\">Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/10/Gun-Laws-and-Gun-Deaths-Lesson-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesson Plan: Gun Laws and Gun Deaths (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/10/guncontrol_guide_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A teacher-produced guide on addressing gun violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The suspected gunman, a 19-year-old former student at the school who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons, fired a legally-purchased semiautomatic AR-15 assault rifle. That's the same firearm used in many other mass shootings in recent years, including the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and the 2017 shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. A federal assault rifle ban from 1994, that would have prohibited legal sales of the AR-15, expired in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass shootings occur with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/health/u-s-most-mass-shootings/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alarming frequency\u003c/a> in the U.S., more so than in any nation in the world. The deadliest incidents prompt predictable calls among gun control advocates in Congress -- almost entirely Democrats -- to tighten the nation's exceptionally lenient gun laws. Many point \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to Australia\u003c/a>, which significantly tightened its own gun laws following a mass shooting in 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people. Since then, there have been no gun-related mass killings in the country, and an overall decline in gun death rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those opposed to new regulations, including the majority of Republicans, characteristically argue that the aftermath of a national tragedy is not the right time for political debate, and that stricter laws would only deprive law abiding Americans of their fundamental rights while doing little to prevent those with ill-intentions from getting hold of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Washington Post video\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34aJ9n97uI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the latter faction has been undeniably victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing new national gun control measures has proven all but impossible in a country where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution's Second Amendment, and where the gun rights lobby wields enormous political influence. Led by the efforts of the powerful National Rifle Association, firearms advocates stand firmly against almost any new restrictions, and through effective political organizing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/nra-donations/?utm_term=.e706d746d8f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generous campaign contributions\u003c/a>, have successfully thwarted all recent efforts to enact tougher regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/07/26/americas-loaded-history-with-guns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[RELATED: TIMELINE OF U.S. GUN CONTROL EFFORTS]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not so much that Americans are more violent than people in other countries, we're just way more lethal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many gun rights proponents consider ownership a U.S. birthright, a protection as essential as freedom of speech. Even though the number of U.S. households with guns has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/american-gun-ownership-is-now-at-a-30-year-low/?utm_term=.3436e05e441d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually fallen\u003c/a> in recent decades, the rate of firearms per capita here is still by far the highest in the world: nearly three of every 10 adults owns a firearm, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent Pew Research survey\u003c/a>. Today, there are an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">350 million civilian-owned firearms \u003c/a>in the U.S. That's more guns than people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/guns-and-daily-life-identity-experiences-activities-and-involvement/psdt_2017-06-22-guns-new-6-22-02/\">\u003cimg class=\"attachment-large size-large alignright\" src=\"http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/22111057/PSDT_2017.06.22.guns-new-6.22-02.png\" alt=\"About four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a gun-owning household\" width=\"308\" height=\"643\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although mass shootings receive the most attention, they actually make up only a tiny percentage of America's hefty gun carnage. The U.S. has\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/22/gun-ownership-homicides-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> far higher rates of gun violence\u003c/a> than any other developed nation. In 2015 alone, more than 36,000 people were killed by firearms, just shy of the total number killed in auto accidents, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map below is based on data from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's\u003c/a> analysis of 2016 death certificates. It factors in all reported gun-related deaths, including homicides, accidents and suicides (the latter of which make up about two-thirds of gun deaths nationwide). There were more than 38,000 reported gun deaths in 2016, according to CDC data, a rate of about 12 per 100,000 people. It marks the second straight year that gun deaths have risen. There were about 4,000 more gun deaths in 2016 than the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun ownership rates are derived from the results of a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/injuryprev/early/2015/06/09/injuryprev-2015-041586.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=doj6vx0laFZMsQ2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey published in the health journal Injury Prevention\u003c/a>. 4,000 adults (18 years and up ) were surveyed from 50 states. One-third of all respondents reported owning a gun (of any type), ranging from 5.2 percent in Delaware to 61.7 percent in Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016 gun control rankings are from the \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/scorecard/#map\" target=\"/\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for stronger gun control laws and assigns grades to each state based on the strength of policies like background checks, concealed carry permits, bulk firearms purchasing and gun carry restrictions in schools and other public spaces. The National Rifle Association has its own rundown and interpretation of state laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/136f3f5a-b403-4f2d-8805-4030df9ffb1f/embed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But while popular support for stricter gun laws does \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/politics/gun-control-polling-las-vegas-shooting/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">typically increase\u003c/a> in the wake of major mass shootings, the sentiment doesn't usually last long, as Congress neglects to act and eventually moves on to a different issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's little disagreement among Americans that gun violence is a problem: more than 80 percent consider it a major issue, including 50 percent who call it \"a very big problem,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/views-of-guns-and-gun-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sharp divide emerges however, often along partisan lines, in how to address the problem. While almost half of respondents in the same poll said there would be fewer mass shootings in the U.S. if it were harder for people to legally obtain guns, nearly 40 percent said more restrictions on ownership wouldn't make any difference. And a full 13 percent said that doing so would lead to more mass shootings, a belief espoused by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, who famously said: \"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, U.S. gun sales \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/gun-sales-mass-shooting/541809/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">typically spike \u003c/a>after mass shootings, a consequence of more people feeling unsafe and wanting to protect themselves, as well as an increased concern that such incidents will prompt stricter regulations and make it harder to buy guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of stricter regulations are quick to note the correlation between America's high rates of gun ownership and gun violence. But gun rights advocates often argue that there are other factors at play, and these statistics don't indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. They note for instance that \u003ca title=\"rates of gun homicide and other gun crimes\" href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/#u-s-firearm-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gun homicide and other gun crimes\u003c/a> in the U.S. have fallen sharply since peaking in the early 1990s, even as gun ownership remains high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Explore the interactive graphic below, \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">produced by FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>, based on 2014 CDC data, to learn more about the victims and perpetrators of America's ongoing gun violence epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/simplified-gun-deaths/?initialWidth=575&childId=gun_deaths&parentTitle=Mass%20Shootings%20Are%20A%20Bad%20Way%20To%20Understand%20Gun%20Violence%20%7C%20FiveThirtyEight&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffivethirtyeight.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"764px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence points to a 2010 statistic showing that seven out of 10 states with the strictest regulations also have the lowest gun homicide rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gun rights advocates opposed to tighter regulations argue that this a misleading comparison. One common rebuttal is that stricter regulations do little to prevent criminals from getting hold of guns; they simply prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. Gun rights advocates also often point to states like Maine, which has some of the loosest regulations in the country (it received an F grade by gun control groups) but also has a relatively low gun death rate. They also argue that strict gun laws in cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C., have failed to prevent high gun homicide rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gun laws in Chicago only restrict the law-abiding citizens and they've essentially made the citizens prey,\" Richard A. Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/strict-chicago-gun-laws-cant-stem-fatal-shots.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times \u003c/a>in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"28389 https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=28389","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/02/14/gun-nation/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1358,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/136f3f5a-b403-4f2d-8805-4030df9ffb1f/embed","https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/simplified-gun-deaths/"],"paragraphCount":30},"modified":1521759882,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"","title":"Gun Violence, Gun Control, Gun Rights: Where We Go from Here (with Lesson Plan) | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Gun Violence, Gun Control, Gun Rights: Where We Go from Here (with Lesson Plan)","datePublished":"2018-02-14T18:30:56-08:00","dateModified":"2018-03-22T16:04:42-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gun-nation","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/28389/gun-nation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->On Wednesday, Feb. 14, a heavily armed young man opened fire in a high school in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people including 14 students and three school faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just seven weeks into 2018, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is already the 18th school shooting of the year, and the eighth resulting in injury or death, according to \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Town for Gun Safety\u003c/a>, a gun control advocacy group that tracks these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cdiv>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300;\">Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/10/Gun-Laws-and-Gun-Deaths-Lesson-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesson Plan: Gun Laws and Gun Deaths (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/10/guncontrol_guide_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A teacher-produced guide on addressing gun violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The suspected gunman, a 19-year-old former student at the school who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons, fired a legally-purchased semiautomatic AR-15 assault rifle. That's the same firearm used in many other mass shootings in recent years, including the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and the 2017 shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. A federal assault rifle ban from 1994, that would have prohibited legal sales of the AR-15, expired in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass shootings occur with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/health/u-s-most-mass-shootings/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alarming frequency\u003c/a> in the U.S., more so than in any nation in the world. The deadliest incidents prompt predictable calls among gun control advocates in Congress -- almost entirely Democrats -- to tighten the nation's exceptionally lenient gun laws. Many point \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to Australia\u003c/a>, which significantly tightened its own gun laws following a mass shooting in 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people. Since then, there have been no gun-related mass killings in the country, and an overall decline in gun death rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those opposed to new regulations, including the majority of Republicans, characteristically argue that the aftermath of a national tragedy is not the right time for political debate, and that stricter laws would only deprive law abiding Americans of their fundamental rights while doing little to prevent those with ill-intentions from getting hold of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Washington Post video\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/q34aJ9n97uI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/q34aJ9n97uI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent years, the latter faction has been undeniably victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing new national gun control measures has proven all but impossible in a country where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution's Second Amendment, and where the gun rights lobby wields enormous political influence. Led by the efforts of the powerful National Rifle Association, firearms advocates stand firmly against almost any new restrictions, and through effective political organizing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/nra-donations/?utm_term=.e706d746d8f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generous campaign contributions\u003c/a>, have successfully thwarted all recent efforts to enact tougher regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/07/26/americas-loaded-history-with-guns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[RELATED: TIMELINE OF U.S. GUN CONTROL EFFORTS]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not so much that Americans are more violent than people in other countries, we're just way more lethal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many gun rights proponents consider ownership a U.S. birthright, a protection as essential as freedom of speech. Even though the number of U.S. households with guns has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/american-gun-ownership-is-now-at-a-30-year-low/?utm_term=.3436e05e441d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually fallen\u003c/a> in recent decades, the rate of firearms per capita here is still by far the highest in the world: nearly three of every 10 adults owns a firearm, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent Pew Research survey\u003c/a>. Today, there are an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">350 million civilian-owned firearms \u003c/a>in the U.S. That's more guns than people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/guns-and-daily-life-identity-experiences-activities-and-involvement/psdt_2017-06-22-guns-new-6-22-02/\">\u003cimg class=\"attachment-large size-large alignright\" src=\"http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/22111057/PSDT_2017.06.22.guns-new-6.22-02.png\" alt=\"About four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a gun-owning household\" width=\"308\" height=\"643\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although mass shootings receive the most attention, they actually make up only a tiny percentage of America's hefty gun carnage. The U.S. has\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/22/gun-ownership-homicides-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> far higher rates of gun violence\u003c/a> than any other developed nation. In 2015 alone, more than 36,000 people were killed by firearms, just shy of the total number killed in auto accidents, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map below is based on data from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's\u003c/a> analysis of 2016 death certificates. It factors in all reported gun-related deaths, including homicides, accidents and suicides (the latter of which make up about two-thirds of gun deaths nationwide). There were more than 38,000 reported gun deaths in 2016, according to CDC data, a rate of about 12 per 100,000 people. It marks the second straight year that gun deaths have risen. There were about 4,000 more gun deaths in 2016 than the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun ownership rates are derived from the results of a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/injuryprev/early/2015/06/09/injuryprev-2015-041586.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=doj6vx0laFZMsQ2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey published in the health journal Injury Prevention\u003c/a>. 4,000 adults (18 years and up ) were surveyed from 50 states. One-third of all respondents reported owning a gun (of any type), ranging from 5.2 percent in Delaware to 61.7 percent in Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016 gun control rankings are from the \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/scorecard/#map\" target=\"/\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for stronger gun control laws and assigns grades to each state based on the strength of policies like background checks, concealed carry permits, bulk firearms purchasing and gun carry restrictions in schools and other public spaces. The National Rifle Association has its own rundown and interpretation of state laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/136f3f5a-b403-4f2d-8805-4030df9ffb1f/embed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But while popular support for stricter gun laws does \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/politics/gun-control-polling-las-vegas-shooting/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">typically increase\u003c/a> in the wake of major mass shootings, the sentiment doesn't usually last long, as Congress neglects to act and eventually moves on to a different issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's little disagreement among Americans that gun violence is a problem: more than 80 percent consider it a major issue, including 50 percent who call it \"a very big problem,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/views-of-guns-and-gun-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sharp divide emerges however, often along partisan lines, in how to address the problem. While almost half of respondents in the same poll said there would be fewer mass shootings in the U.S. if it were harder for people to legally obtain guns, nearly 40 percent said more restrictions on ownership wouldn't make any difference. And a full 13 percent said that doing so would lead to more mass shootings, a belief espoused by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, who famously said: \"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, U.S. gun sales \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/gun-sales-mass-shooting/541809/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">typically spike \u003c/a>after mass shootings, a consequence of more people feeling unsafe and wanting to protect themselves, as well as an increased concern that such incidents will prompt stricter regulations and make it harder to buy guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of stricter regulations are quick to note the correlation between America's high rates of gun ownership and gun violence. But gun rights advocates often argue that there are other factors at play, and these statistics don't indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. They note for instance that \u003ca title=\"rates of gun homicide and other gun crimes\" href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/#u-s-firearm-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gun homicide and other gun crimes\u003c/a> in the U.S. have fallen sharply since peaking in the early 1990s, even as gun ownership remains high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Explore the interactive graphic below, \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">produced by FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>, based on 2014 CDC data, to learn more about the victims and perpetrators of America's ongoing gun violence epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/simplified-gun-deaths/?initialWidth=575&childId=gun_deaths&parentTitle=Mass%20Shootings%20Are%20A%20Bad%20Way%20To%20Understand%20Gun%20Violence%20%7C%20FiveThirtyEight&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffivethirtyeight.com%2Ffeatures%2Fmass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"764px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence points to a 2010 statistic showing that seven out of 10 states with the strictest regulations also have the lowest gun homicide rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gun rights advocates opposed to tighter regulations argue that this a misleading comparison. One common rebuttal is that stricter regulations do little to prevent criminals from getting hold of guns; they simply prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. Gun rights advocates also often point to states like Maine, which has some of the loosest regulations in the country (it received an F grade by gun control groups) but also has a relatively low gun death rate. They also argue that strict gun laws in cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C., have failed to prevent high gun homicide rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gun laws in Chicago only restrict the law-abiding citizens and they've essentially made the citizens prey,\" Richard A. Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/strict-chicago-gun-laws-cant-stem-fatal-shots.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times \u003c/a>in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/28389/gun-nation","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_311","lowdown_2399","lowdown_457"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_2629","lowdown_406"],"featImg":"lowdown_28545","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_15427":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_15427","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"15427","score":null,"sort":[1514478016000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1514478016,"format":"video","disqusTitle":"Looking for the Fastest Way to Board a Plane? Go Ask An Astrophysicist","title":"Looking for the Fastest Way to Board a Plane? Go Ask An Astrophysicist","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>If you're braving the \"friendly,\" crowded skies this holiday season, brace yourself for the inevitably glacial pace of the boarding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boarding methods of most commercial airlines are not quite the gold standard of efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what's the fastest way to get in your seat? I mean, come on, we're not exactly talking rocket science here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, it's actually a fairly complicated puzzle to decipher: a intricate enough problem to tantalize the likes of an astrophysicist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-15443 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png\" alt=\"Courtesy of Vox\" width=\"889\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png 889w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-400x261.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-320x208.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Vox.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After enduring one too many maddeningly slow boarding experiences, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/new-faces-jason-steffen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Steffen \u003c/a>a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, began digging into the unexpectedly complicated mechanics of efficiently ushering passengers onto planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Steffen created a computer simulation to evaluate existing boarding methods and ultimately design what he claims is the most efficient option for getting restless passengers into their seats. The results were published several years ago in the Journal of Air Transport Management (\u003ca href=\"http://home.fnal.gov/~jsteffen/airplanes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summarized here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his research, Steffen identified the two most common factors responsible for slowing the boarding process to a painful crawl:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Passengers typically have to wait in the aisle for those ahead of them to stow luggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Those already seated in aisle or middle seats have to get up and move back into the aisle to let passengers behind them take the seats closer to the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the most routine boarding process -- from back to front -- is actually the slowest of them all, Steffen's argues, It's even less efficient than boarding a plane in a completely random order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steffen claims that his proposed method, which minimizes the former issue and eliminates the latter, could significantly reduce boarding times, thus cutting down on overall door-to-door flight lengths, and ultimately saving airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news site \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2014/4/25/5647696/the-way-we-board-airplanes-makes-absolutely-no-sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox \u003c/a>recently explored this question and created the above video analyzing various standard boarding methods. The videos below show individual simulations of these different boarding processes, listed from worst (slowest) to best (fastest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think you have a better idea? Let us know in the comment section below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's to safe, relatively painless and highly efficient travels!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>5. The dreaded back-to-front method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/CsRfFhrNtho\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>4. The random method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/QJMuXZrV3gY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>3. The outside-in method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/cHFWuP37Ha4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>2. The best current option: Southwest's self-selection method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>No video simulation for this one, but the basic gist is that Southwest doesn't assign seats. Instead, passengers get on the plane in the order they check in and can sit in which ever seats are available. This method has proven to be the most efficient one currently used because passengers have more freedom to sit where they want and spend less time waiting in the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>1. And finally, the winner (in theory, at least): The Steffen method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Steffen's method is closest to the the outside-in method, with one major difference: rather than having all window seat passengers board first, it creates a choreographed boarding sequence that eliminates any waiting in the aisle by having passengers board in a staggered format. Take a look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/cHFWuP37Ha4\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"15427 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=15427","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/12/28/whats-the-fastest-way-to-board-a-plane-hint-probably-not-how-youre-used-to-doing-it/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":551,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":18},"modified":1515026888,"excerpt":"Figuring out the best boarding method is more complicated than you might think. ","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Figuring out the best boarding method is more complicated than you might think. ","title":"Looking for the Fastest Way to Board a Plane? 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I mean, come on, we're not exactly talking rocket science here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, it's actually a fairly complicated puzzle to decipher: a intricate enough problem to tantalize the likes of an astrophysicist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-15443 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png\" alt=\"Courtesy of Vox\" width=\"889\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding.png 889w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-400x261.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2015/01/vox_boarding-320x208.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Vox.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After enduring one too many maddeningly slow boarding experiences, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/new-faces-jason-steffen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Steffen \u003c/a>a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, began digging into the unexpectedly complicated mechanics of efficiently ushering passengers onto planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Steffen created a computer simulation to evaluate existing boarding methods and ultimately design what he claims is the most efficient option for getting restless passengers into their seats. The results were published several years ago in the Journal of Air Transport Management (\u003ca href=\"http://home.fnal.gov/~jsteffen/airplanes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summarized here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his research, Steffen identified the two most common factors responsible for slowing the boarding process to a painful crawl:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Passengers typically have to wait in the aisle for those ahead of them to stow luggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Those already seated in aisle or middle seats have to get up and move back into the aisle to let passengers behind them take the seats closer to the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the most routine boarding process -- from back to front -- is actually the slowest of them all, Steffen's argues, It's even less efficient than boarding a plane in a completely random order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steffen claims that his proposed method, which minimizes the former issue and eliminates the latter, could significantly reduce boarding times, thus cutting down on overall door-to-door flight lengths, and ultimately saving airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news site \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2014/4/25/5647696/the-way-we-board-airplanes-makes-absolutely-no-sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox \u003c/a>recently explored this question and created the above video analyzing various standard boarding methods. The videos below show individual simulations of these different boarding processes, listed from worst (slowest) to best (fastest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think you have a better idea? Let us know in the comment section below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's to safe, relatively painless and highly efficient travels!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>5. The dreaded back-to-front method\u003c/h4>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/CsRfFhrNtho'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/CsRfFhrNtho'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>4. The random method\u003c/h4>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QJMuXZrV3gY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QJMuXZrV3gY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>3. The outside-in method\u003c/h4>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cHFWuP37Ha4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cHFWuP37Ha4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>2. The best current option: Southwest's self-selection method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>No video simulation for this one, but the basic gist is that Southwest doesn't assign seats. Instead, passengers get on the plane in the order they check in and can sit in which ever seats are available. This method has proven to be the most efficient one currently used because passengers have more freedom to sit where they want and spend less time waiting in the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>1. And finally, the winner (in theory, at least): The Steffen method\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Steffen's method is closest to the the outside-in method, with one major difference: rather than having all window seat passengers board first, it creates a choreographed boarding sequence that eliminates any waiting in the aisle by having passengers board in a staggered format. Take a look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cHFWuP37Ha4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cHFWuP37Ha4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/15427/whats-the-fastest-way-to-board-a-plane-hint-probably-not-how-youre-used-to-doing-it","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_256","lowdown_457","lowdown_2408"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_562","lowdown_563"],"featImg":"lowdown_15446","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_14066":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_14066","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"14066","score":null,"sort":[1504893632000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"13-years-later-four-major-lasting-impacts-of-911","title":"How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts (with Lesson Plan)","publishDate":1504893632,"format":"image","headTitle":"How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts (with Lesson Plan) | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>TEACHERS: Your students are too young to have lived through the 9/11 attack, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t impacted their lives. The \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/perspectives/?utm_source=kqed-edu&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=lowdown\">Perspectives Youth Media Challenge\u003c/a> offers them a chance to tell their stories. Maybe they have a parent, older sibling or cousin who served in Afghanistan. Maybe they have seen anti-Muslim sentiment in their own communities. Invite them to share how 9/11 has affected their lives with the Perspectives Challenge. (Preview the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/curriculum/perspectives/?utm_source=kqed-edu&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=lowdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">curriculum here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Sept. 10, 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years ago, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We deported half the number of people we do today. Our surveillance state was a fraction of its current size. And — perhaps hardest to believe — we didn’t have to take off our shoes to go through airport security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in a dramatic change in our nation’s attitudes and concerns about safety, vigilance and privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ushered in a new generation of policies like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/terrorism/homeland/patriotact.html\">USA Patriot Act\u003c/a>, prioritizing national security and defense, often at the expense of civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300;\">Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our entire lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/09/Sept-11-lesson-plan-2017-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lasting impacts of 9/11 lesson plan (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>These changes continue to have ripple effects across the globe, particularly in the Middle East, where American-led military operations helped foment rebellions and ongoing warfare throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are four of the many dramatic impacts — nationwide and in California — resulting from the events of that one tragic day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I. ‘Forever Wars’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Less than a month after 9/11, U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to dismantle al-Qaeda — the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks — and remove the Taliban government harboring it. Two years later, in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and deposed President Saddam Hussein. Although not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, Hussein was suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction (none were ever found). The invasion was a key part of America’s newly launched War on Terror, under the leadership of President George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our military involvement in Afghanistan — which just ended calamitously last year, with the Taliban reclaiming control of the country — was the longest war in American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS0qENVESv0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2011, remaining U.S. troops were pulled out of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfr.org/iraq/timeline-iraq-war/p18876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iraq\u003c/a>, leaving that nation in a far more volatile state than when military operations first began in 2003. But the U.S. soon after resumed intermittent air strikes following the emergence of the Islamic State extremist group, which sprouted from the chaos of war and terrorized the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, the Bush Administration also opened the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where it began sending suspected enemy combatants. Held indefinitely, prisoners were denied access to trials or legal representation, and were subject to brutal interrogation techniques. There were more than 650 foreign inmates at the facility by 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have long pushed to shut down the Guantanamo facility, calling it a gross violation of basic human rights and a stain on America’s image abroad. And although early in his first term, Obama vowed to close it — and significantly reduced the population\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/guantanamo/detainees?mcubz=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>— he failed to completely shut it down. Former President Donald Trump was intent on keeping it open, and even sought, unsuccessfully, to refill it. Today, Guantanamo has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html?mcubz=1\">fewer than 40 prisoners\u003c/a>, but still remains operational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 9/11, budgets for defense-related agencies skyrocketed: Homeland Security’s discretionary budget jumped from about $16 billion in 2002 to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/budget-bib-fy2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than $43 billion\u003c/a> in 2011. Meanwhile, the budgets of the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration and Border Patrol have all more than doubled since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 20 years, millions of young U.S. soldiers have been deployed overseas, thousands have been killed and many have returned home with debilitating physical and mental injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of post-9/11 U.S. military operations, some 7,000 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf\">the latest figures\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Defense. That marks just a tiny fraction of total casualties in the two conflicts, which have claimed the lives of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2019/direct-war-death-toll-2001-801000\">hundreds of thousands\u003c/a> of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, as well as contractors, journalists, allied troops and opposition fighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, more than 52,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have been wounded in action over the last 20 years. And many more have returned home physically intact but suffering from severe long-term mental health issues, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and psychological ailments linked to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Thousands of veterans of the two conflicts have taken their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California impact\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is second only to Texas in its contribution of recruits to the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this year, 776 men and women from across the state have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, accounting for 11% of total U.S. casualties — more than any other state — according to an\u003ca href=\"http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> LA Times database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Times reports, “Nearly 20% of California’s war dead were old enough to die for their country but too young to buy a drink. They left behind 453 children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the 13 U.S. troops killed In the \u003ca class=\"link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-08-26/us-troops-killed-afghanistan-airport-bombing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 26 suicide bombing\u003c/a> at the Kabul airport gate were Marines from California. Occurring just days before the official end of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, the attack also killed dozens of Afghan civilians — one of the deadliest bombings in the almost two decades since the U.S.-led invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/embed/iNUX8W5_oxk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>II. Immigration and Deportation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bush Administration created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2002, a cabinet-level office that merged 22 government agencies. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service — both formerly part of the Department of Justice — were consolidated into the newly formed \u003ca title=\"Multimedia Resource Roundup\" href=\"https://www.ice.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u003c/a>. The agency has overseen a massive increase in deportations; they have nearly doubled since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Homeland Security’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dhs.gov%2Fyearbook-immigration-statistics&ei=NKxPUPu5K87hiwKn14HADQ&usg=AFQjCNFZCr-MNftShOtU3Ycc8HPUr1M1Zg&sig2=agIJsVoj7kiDoBqPasJOQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Yearbook of Immigration Statistics\u003c/a>, there were roughly 200,000 annual deportations a year between 1999 and 2001. While that number dropped slightly in 2002, it began to steadily climb the following year. In the first two years of the Obama Administration (2009 – 2010), deportations hit a record high: nearly 400,000 annually. About half of those deported during that period were convicted of a criminal offense, although mostly low-level, non-violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/secure_communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program, established in 2008 and officially phased out in 2014, allowed local law enforcement to check the immigration status of every person booked in a county or local jail — even if not ultimately convicted of a crime — by comparing fingerprints against federal immigration records. The program resulted in numerous instances of undocumented immigrants entering deportation proceedings after being stopped for minor infractions (like not using a turn signal while driving).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, when Obama announced plans to phase out the program, ICE had established Secure Communities partnerships with every single\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/sc-activated.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> law enforcement jurisdiction \u003c/a>in the nation (all 3,181 of them).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California impact\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Jerry Brown — then California’s Attorney General — agreed to implement the Secure Communities. As of 2012, ICE reported it had taken nearly 48,000 “convicted criminal aliens” in California into custody. Almost half of them were deported, even though less than a quarter had been convicted of offenses considered “serious or violent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the primary destination for foreign nationals entering the country, and home to a quarter of America’s immigrant population. Of the nearly 10 million immigrants (both naturalized and undocumented) residing in the state, an estimated 4.3 million are Mexican, 28% of whom are naturalized, according to the \u003ca title=\"Multimedia Resource Roundup\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/embed/XrKd_2MoKpE\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>III. The Friendly-ish Skies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Long airport lines, full body scans, the occasional pat-down (for the lucky ones). It’s all par for the course when you fly these days. But not so long ago, it wasn’t unusual to show up at the airport a half-hour before a domestic flight, keep your shoes tied tight, and skip through the metal detector while sipping a Big Gulp, all without ever having to show an ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the advent of color-coded security threat warnings, pat downs were rare, liquids were allowed, and the notion of having to go through full-body scanners was the stuff of science fiction. Heck, prior to 9/11, some airport security teams even allowed passengers to take box cutters aboard (the supposed weapon used by the 9/11 hijackers). Any knife with a blade up to four inches long was permitted. And cigarette lighters? No problem!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the terrorist attacks, airport security underwent a series of major overhauls. And a service that was once largely provided by private companies is now primarily overseen by the massive \u003ca href=\"http://www.tsa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the TSA is tasked with instituting new security procedures and managing screenings at every commercial airport checkpoint in the country (although, private contractors still operate at some airports). It marks the single largest federal start-up since the days of World War II. The agency is authorized to refer to watch lists of individuals who could pose flight safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although advocates argue that the changes have made air travel safer, the additional security steps have also tacked on a significant amount of travel time for the average passenger, while sometimes infringing on privacy rights and, in many instances, increasing scrutiny of minority travelers, particularly those of Middle Eastern descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/embed/HsDAvCOFT9M\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>IV. Big surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. intelligence state boomed in the wake of 9/11. The growth resulted in a marked increase in government oversight, primarily through a vast, clandestine network of phone and web surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classified documents that were leaked in 2013 by former government contractor Edward Snowden detail the expansion of a colossal surveillance state that’s seeped into the lives of millions of ordinary Americans. The exponential growth of this apparatus — armed with a $52.6 billion budget in 2013 — was brought to light when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post\u003c/a> obtained a “black budget” report from Snowden, detailing the bureaucratic and operational landscape of the 16 spy agencies and more than 107,000 employees that now make up the U.S. intelligence community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further audits reveal that the National Security Agency alone has annually scooped up as many as 56,000 emails and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, and in doing so, had violated privacy laws thousands of times per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/embed/S61eL_06RZ4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in dramatic changes in our nation's attitudes and concerns about safety, vigilance and privacy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726007754,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1927},"headData":{"title":"How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts (with Lesson Plan) | KQED","description":"America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in dramatic changes in our nation's attitudes and concerns about safety, vigilance and privacy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts (with Lesson Plan)","datePublished":"2017-09-08T11:00:32-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-10T15:35:54-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"customPermalink":"2014/09/10/13-years-later-four-major-lasting-impacts-of-911/","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/lowdown/14066/13-years-later-four-major-lasting-impacts-of-911","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>TEACHERS: Your students are too young to have lived through the 9/11 attack, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t impacted their lives. The \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/perspectives/?utm_source=kqed-edu&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=lowdown\">Perspectives Youth Media Challenge\u003c/a> offers them a chance to tell their stories. Maybe they have a parent, older sibling or cousin who served in Afghanistan. Maybe they have seen anti-Muslim sentiment in their own communities. Invite them to share how 9/11 has affected their lives with the Perspectives Challenge. (Preview the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/curriculum/perspectives/?utm_source=kqed-edu&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=lowdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">curriculum here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Sept. 10, 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years ago, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We deported half the number of people we do today. Our surveillance state was a fraction of its current size. And — perhaps hardest to believe — we didn’t have to take off our shoes to go through airport security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in a dramatic change in our nation’s attitudes and concerns about safety, vigilance and privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ushered in a new generation of policies like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/terrorism/homeland/patriotact.html\">USA Patriot Act\u003c/a>, prioritizing national security and defense, often at the expense of civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300;\">Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our entire lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/09/Sept-11-lesson-plan-2017-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lasting impacts of 9/11 lesson plan (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>These changes continue to have ripple effects across the globe, particularly in the Middle East, where American-led military operations helped foment rebellions and ongoing warfare throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are four of the many dramatic impacts — nationwide and in California — resulting from the events of that one tragic day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I. ‘Forever Wars’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Less than a month after 9/11, U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to dismantle al-Qaeda — the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks — and remove the Taliban government harboring it. Two years later, in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and deposed President Saddam Hussein. Although not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, Hussein was suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction (none were ever found). The invasion was a key part of America’s newly launched War on Terror, under the leadership of President George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our military involvement in Afghanistan — which just ended calamitously last year, with the Taliban reclaiming control of the country — was the longest war in American history.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zS0qENVESv0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zS0qENVESv0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In December 2011, remaining U.S. troops were pulled out of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfr.org/iraq/timeline-iraq-war/p18876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iraq\u003c/a>, leaving that nation in a far more volatile state than when military operations first began in 2003. But the U.S. soon after resumed intermittent air strikes following the emergence of the Islamic State extremist group, which sprouted from the chaos of war and terrorized the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, the Bush Administration also opened the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where it began sending suspected enemy combatants. Held indefinitely, prisoners were denied access to trials or legal representation, and were subject to brutal interrogation techniques. There were more than 650 foreign inmates at the facility by 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have long pushed to shut down the Guantanamo facility, calling it a gross violation of basic human rights and a stain on America’s image abroad. And although early in his first term, Obama vowed to close it — and significantly reduced the population\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/guantanamo/detainees?mcubz=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>— he failed to completely shut it down. Former President Donald Trump was intent on keeping it open, and even sought, unsuccessfully, to refill it. Today, Guantanamo has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html?mcubz=1\">fewer than 40 prisoners\u003c/a>, but still remains operational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 9/11, budgets for defense-related agencies skyrocketed: Homeland Security’s discretionary budget jumped from about $16 billion in 2002 to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/budget-bib-fy2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than $43 billion\u003c/a> in 2011. Meanwhile, the budgets of the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration and Border Patrol have all more than doubled since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 20 years, millions of young U.S. soldiers have been deployed overseas, thousands have been killed and many have returned home with debilitating physical and mental injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of post-9/11 U.S. military operations, some 7,000 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf\">the latest figures\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Defense. That marks just a tiny fraction of total casualties in the two conflicts, which have claimed the lives of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2019/direct-war-death-toll-2001-801000\">hundreds of thousands\u003c/a> of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, as well as contractors, journalists, allied troops and opposition fighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, more than 52,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have been wounded in action over the last 20 years. And many more have returned home physically intact but suffering from severe long-term mental health issues, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and psychological ailments linked to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Thousands of veterans of the two conflicts have taken their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California impact\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is second only to Texas in its contribution of recruits to the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this year, 776 men and women from across the state have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, accounting for 11% of total U.S. casualties — more than any other state — according to an\u003ca href=\"http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> LA Times database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Times reports, “Nearly 20% of California’s war dead were old enough to die for their country but too young to buy a drink. They left behind 453 children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the 13 U.S. troops killed In the \u003ca class=\"link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-08-26/us-troops-killed-afghanistan-airport-bombing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 26 suicide bombing\u003c/a> at the Kabul airport gate were Marines from California. Occurring just days before the official end of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, the attack also killed dozens of Afghan civilians — one of the deadliest bombings in the almost two decades since the U.S.-led invasion.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iNUX8W5_oxk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iNUX8W5_oxk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>II. Immigration and Deportation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bush Administration created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2002, a cabinet-level office that merged 22 government agencies. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service — both formerly part of the Department of Justice — were consolidated into the newly formed \u003ca title=\"Multimedia Resource Roundup\" href=\"https://www.ice.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u003c/a>. The agency has overseen a massive increase in deportations; they have nearly doubled since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Homeland Security’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dhs.gov%2Fyearbook-immigration-statistics&ei=NKxPUPu5K87hiwKn14HADQ&usg=AFQjCNFZCr-MNftShOtU3Ycc8HPUr1M1Zg&sig2=agIJsVoj7kiDoBqPasJOQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Yearbook of Immigration Statistics\u003c/a>, there were roughly 200,000 annual deportations a year between 1999 and 2001. While that number dropped slightly in 2002, it began to steadily climb the following year. In the first two years of the Obama Administration (2009 – 2010), deportations hit a record high: nearly 400,000 annually. About half of those deported during that period were convicted of a criminal offense, although mostly low-level, non-violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/secure_communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program, established in 2008 and officially phased out in 2014, allowed local law enforcement to check the immigration status of every person booked in a county or local jail — even if not ultimately convicted of a crime — by comparing fingerprints against federal immigration records. The program resulted in numerous instances of undocumented immigrants entering deportation proceedings after being stopped for minor infractions (like not using a turn signal while driving).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, when Obama announced plans to phase out the program, ICE had established Secure Communities partnerships with every single\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/sc-activated.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> law enforcement jurisdiction \u003c/a>in the nation (all 3,181 of them).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California impact\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Jerry Brown — then California’s Attorney General — agreed to implement the Secure Communities. As of 2012, ICE reported it had taken nearly 48,000 “convicted criminal aliens” in California into custody. Almost half of them were deported, even though less than a quarter had been convicted of offenses considered “serious or violent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the primary destination for foreign nationals entering the country, and home to a quarter of America’s immigrant population. Of the nearly 10 million immigrants (both naturalized and undocumented) residing in the state, an estimated 4.3 million are Mexican, 28% of whom are naturalized, according to the \u003ca title=\"Multimedia Resource Roundup\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XrKd_2MoKpE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XrKd_2MoKpE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>III. The Friendly-ish Skies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Long airport lines, full body scans, the occasional pat-down (for the lucky ones). It’s all par for the course when you fly these days. But not so long ago, it wasn’t unusual to show up at the airport a half-hour before a domestic flight, keep your shoes tied tight, and skip through the metal detector while sipping a Big Gulp, all without ever having to show an ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the advent of color-coded security threat warnings, pat downs were rare, liquids were allowed, and the notion of having to go through full-body scanners was the stuff of science fiction. Heck, prior to 9/11, some airport security teams even allowed passengers to take box cutters aboard (the supposed weapon used by the 9/11 hijackers). Any knife with a blade up to four inches long was permitted. And cigarette lighters? No problem!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the terrorist attacks, airport security underwent a series of major overhauls. And a service that was once largely provided by private companies is now primarily overseen by the massive \u003ca href=\"http://www.tsa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the TSA is tasked with instituting new security procedures and managing screenings at every commercial airport checkpoint in the country (although, private contractors still operate at some airports). It marks the single largest federal start-up since the days of World War II. The agency is authorized to refer to watch lists of individuals who could pose flight safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although advocates argue that the changes have made air travel safer, the additional security steps have also tacked on a significant amount of travel time for the average passenger, while sometimes infringing on privacy rights and, in many instances, increasing scrutiny of minority travelers, particularly those of Middle Eastern descent.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/HsDAvCOFT9M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/HsDAvCOFT9M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>IV. Big surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. intelligence state boomed in the wake of 9/11. The growth resulted in a marked increase in government oversight, primarily through a vast, clandestine network of phone and web surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classified documents that were leaked in 2013 by former government contractor Edward Snowden detail the expansion of a colossal surveillance state that’s seeped into the lives of millions of ordinary Americans. The exponential growth of this apparatus — armed with a $52.6 billion budget in 2013 — was brought to light when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post\u003c/a> obtained a “black budget” report from Snowden, detailing the bureaucratic and operational landscape of the 16 spy agencies and more than 107,000 employees that now make up the U.S. intelligence community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further audits reveal that the National Security Agency alone has annually scooped up as many as 56,000 emails and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, and in doing so, had violated privacy laws thousands of times per year.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/S61eL_06RZ4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/S61eL_06RZ4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/14066/13-years-later-four-major-lasting-impacts-of-911","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_509","lowdown_2362","lowdown_2399","lowdown_457","lowdown_2365","lowdown_2359","lowdown_2397"],"tags":["lowdown_168","lowdown_2337","lowdown_524"],"featImg":"lowdown_23785","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_27920":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_27920","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"27920","score":null,"sort":[1503607118000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1503607118,"format":"video","disqusTitle":"Does Your School Start Too Early in the Morning? (with Lesson Plan)","title":"Does Your School Start Too Early in the Morning? (with Lesson Plan)","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>How's this for a rude awakening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average adolescent in the U.S. is \"chronically sleep deprived and pathologically tired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300\">Teach with the Lowdown and Above the Noise\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-28023 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/hands.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\">\u003c/h4>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">Ideas for analysis, discussion and multimedia projects. Browse our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lesson archive\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Read-Think-Respond: \u003c/strong>Should school start later in the morning?\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cem>[Tell us what you think in the \u003ca href=\"#unique-identifier1\">comments section\u003c/a>]\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2016/09/02/should-schools-start-later-to-improve-academic-performance-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth media: Article from students at Cal Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/Lesson-Plan-School-Start-Times-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesson plan\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/Source-List-School-Start-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of sources\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>That's according to a 2014 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which describes an \"epidemic\" of sleep deprivation among America's middle and high school students. Roughly 70 percent of U.S. teenagers don't get anywhere near the recommended nightly minimum of 8.5 hours each night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such deprivation, sleep researchers argue, can affect academic performance and contribute to the prevalence of serious health problems like depression, obesity and car crashes -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-auto-accidents-top-teen-killer-20140603-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number one killer\u003c/a> of teens in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chronic sleep loss in children and adolescents is one of the most common – and easily fixable – public health issues in the U.S. today,” said pediatrician Judith Owens, lead author of the AAP's “\u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/08/19/peds.2014-1697\">School Start Times for Adolescents\u003c/a>” report, which recommends that middle and high schools push back start times to 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies have shown that delaying early school start times is one key factor that can help adolescents get the sleep they need to grow and learn,\" she writes. Doing so would align to the biological sleep rhythms of adolescents, whose sleep-wake cycles -- or circadian rhythms -- shift up to two hours later when puberty begins. For more on this, check out our \u003cem>totally energizing\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4K10PNjqgGLKA3lo5V8KdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Above the Noise video\u003c/a> (better than a shot of espresso, I promise).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APP's recommendation, supported by a growing number of other public health groups, is the basis for new California legislation that would mandate publicly funded middle and high schools throughout the state to push back their school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill -- \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB328\">SB 328\u003c/a> -- which already passed in the state Senate and now heads to the Assembly, is the first statewide bill of its kind in the country. Districts would have until July 2020 to adjust their schedules. Most would presumably end the school day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, the bill would delay the start of first period for the more than 3 million middle and high school students in California, where schools now abide by a hodgepodge of start times. The average high school starts at 8:07 a.m., as compared to the national average of 8:03 a.m., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the science that says this is a public health issue and a public health crisis, \" said state Sen. Anthony Portantino a Democrat representing the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, who introduced the bill earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The morning sleep is the most therapeutic, healthy sleep for teenagers,\" he told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a>. \"And what we do as a society, we wake them up in the middle of that healthy sleep and send them to school too early when they're sleep deprived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 400 school districts nationwide that have already pushed back their start times have seen overwhelmingly positive results, he said, with boosts in academic performance, attendance and graduation rates, and a decrease in car accidents and suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, though, faces strong opposition, particularly among many districts, school boards and even teachers who argue these decisions should be made at a local level, given the diverse needs of each community. The delayed schedule would likely lead to lengthy renegotiations with teacher unions and could require additional funding for the necessary changes in bus transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents have also raised concerns that later start times will cause serious disruptions, making it harder to drop off kids in the morning before work. And later school dismissal times, they add, could disrupt afterschool sports activities, pushing practices even later into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We oppose this bill because it imposes a one-size-fits-all approach that we don't actually think will result in kids getting more sleep,\" said Nancy Chaires Espinoza, a legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association, which opposes the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many school districts have determined that a better way of increasing the amount of sleep students get is to minimize their homework load so they can go to bed earlier, Espinoza said in an interview on WBUR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/14/school-start-times-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here and Now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why school times should be a local decision informed by parents and teachers, those who know the students and the community best,\" she added. \"And unfortunately this bill would negate the entire public decision-making process. And we just don't think that's the best way to do right by kids.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"unique-identifier1\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBut Portantino counters that this argument flies in the face of basic biology: Most teenagers, he argues, are simply hardwired to stay up late, until at least 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the arguments against it are adult-based arguments, not kid-based arguments,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"27920 https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=27920","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/08/24/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":898,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":21},"modified":1571198888,"excerpt":"Most teenagers are seriously sleep deprived, and research shows that early school start times contribute to the problem. 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(with Lesson Plan)","datePublished":"2017-08-24T13:38:38-07:00","dateModified":"2019-10-15T21:08:08-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan","status":"publish","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/Bw_3Q6CRxGA","path":"/lowdown/27920/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How's this for a rude awakening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average adolescent in the U.S. is \"chronically sleep deprived and pathologically tired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #993300\">Teach with the Lowdown and Above the Noise\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-28023 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/hands.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\">\u003c/h4>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">Ideas for analysis, discussion and multimedia projects. Browse our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lesson archive\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Read-Think-Respond: \u003c/strong>Should school start later in the morning?\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cem>[Tell us what you think in the \u003ca href=\"#unique-identifier1\">comments section\u003c/a>]\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2016/09/02/should-schools-start-later-to-improve-academic-performance-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth media: Article from students at Cal Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/Lesson-Plan-School-Start-Times-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesson plan\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/08/Source-List-School-Start-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of sources\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>That's according to a 2014 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which describes an \"epidemic\" of sleep deprivation among America's middle and high school students. Roughly 70 percent of U.S. teenagers don't get anywhere near the recommended nightly minimum of 8.5 hours each night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such deprivation, sleep researchers argue, can affect academic performance and contribute to the prevalence of serious health problems like depression, obesity and car crashes -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-auto-accidents-top-teen-killer-20140603-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number one killer\u003c/a> of teens in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chronic sleep loss in children and adolescents is one of the most common – and easily fixable – public health issues in the U.S. today,” said pediatrician Judith Owens, lead author of the AAP's “\u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/08/19/peds.2014-1697\">School Start Times for Adolescents\u003c/a>” report, which recommends that middle and high schools push back start times to 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies have shown that delaying early school start times is one key factor that can help adolescents get the sleep they need to grow and learn,\" she writes. Doing so would align to the biological sleep rhythms of adolescents, whose sleep-wake cycles -- or circadian rhythms -- shift up to two hours later when puberty begins. For more on this, check out our \u003cem>totally energizing\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4K10PNjqgGLKA3lo5V8KdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Above the Noise video\u003c/a> (better than a shot of espresso, I promise).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APP's recommendation, supported by a growing number of other public health groups, is the basis for new California legislation that would mandate publicly funded middle and high schools throughout the state to push back their school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill -- \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB328\">SB 328\u003c/a> -- which already passed in the state Senate and now heads to the Assembly, is the first statewide bill of its kind in the country. Districts would have until July 2020 to adjust their schedules. Most would presumably end the school day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, the bill would delay the start of first period for the more than 3 million middle and high school students in California, where schools now abide by a hodgepodge of start times. The average high school starts at 8:07 a.m., as compared to the national average of 8:03 a.m., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the science that says this is a public health issue and a public health crisis, \" said state Sen. Anthony Portantino a Democrat representing the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, who introduced the bill earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The morning sleep is the most therapeutic, healthy sleep for teenagers,\" he told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a>. \"And what we do as a society, we wake them up in the middle of that healthy sleep and send them to school too early when they're sleep deprived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 400 school districts nationwide that have already pushed back their start times have seen overwhelmingly positive results, he said, with boosts in academic performance, attendance and graduation rates, and a decrease in car accidents and suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, though, faces strong opposition, particularly among many districts, school boards and even teachers who argue these decisions should be made at a local level, given the diverse needs of each community. The delayed schedule would likely lead to lengthy renegotiations with teacher unions and could require additional funding for the necessary changes in bus transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents have also raised concerns that later start times will cause serious disruptions, making it harder to drop off kids in the morning before work. And later school dismissal times, they add, could disrupt afterschool sports activities, pushing practices even later into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We oppose this bill because it imposes a one-size-fits-all approach that we don't actually think will result in kids getting more sleep,\" said Nancy Chaires Espinoza, a legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association, which opposes the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many school districts have determined that a better way of increasing the amount of sleep students get is to minimize their homework load so they can go to bed earlier, Espinoza said in an interview on WBUR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/14/school-start-times-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here and Now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why school times should be a local decision informed by parents and teachers, those who know the students and the community best,\" she added. \"And unfortunately this bill would negate the entire public decision-making process. 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But the statement still stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As any naïve tourist shivering miserably in a tank top and Bermuda shorts might attest, summertime in San Francisco can be downright frigid.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"FKC5uvuWHJF9wBTomTqzTNjDPpEGWhzP\"]\u003cbr>\nWelcome to the infamous \"June Gloom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on days when the temperature in nearby cities climbs into the luscious 90's (°F), it's not uncommon to find much of San Francisco shrouded in a thick blanket of bone-chilling fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're still a bit foggy (sorry, couldn't resist) about why that is, scroll through this great interactive explainer created by \u003ca href=\"http://newsbound.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsbound\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1100\" height=\"620\" src=\"//content.newsbound.com/public/newsbound/sf_fog/index.html?embed=true\" name=\"nb-stack\" class=\"newsbound-embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a bit more clarity (about the fog, that is), watch the beautiful time-lapse film (at top) by Simon Christen, and below, this short video by KQED's Quest that digs deeper into the science of coastal fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/19c09UgIB-4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"13025 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=13025","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/06/13/making-sense-of-san-franciscos-bone-chilling-summertime-fog/","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":165,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://player.vimeo.com/video/69445362","//content.newsbound.com/public/newsbound/sf_fog/index.html","https://www.youtube.com/embed/19c09UgIB-4"],"paragraphCount":11},"modified":1521834199,"excerpt":"San Francisco in the summer can be one foggy town. 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But the statement still stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As any naïve tourist shivering miserably in a tank top and Bermuda shorts might attest, summertime in San Francisco can be downright frigid.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWelcome to the infamous \"June Gloom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on days when the temperature in nearby cities climbs into the luscious 90's (°F), it's not uncommon to find much of San Francisco shrouded in a thick blanket of bone-chilling fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're still a bit foggy (sorry, couldn't resist) about why that is, scroll through this great interactive explainer created by \u003ca href=\"http://newsbound.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsbound\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullWidthWrapper\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"withMargin\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1100\" height=\"620\" src=\"//content.newsbound.com/public/newsbound/sf_fog/index.html?embed=true\" name=\"nb-stack\" class=\"newsbound-embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a bit more clarity (about the fog, that is), watch the beautiful time-lapse film (at top) by Simon Christen, and below, this short video by KQED's Quest that digs deeper into the science of coastal fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/19c09UgIB-4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/13025/making-sense-of-san-franciscos-bone-chilling-summertime-fog","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_457","lowdown_243","lowdown_514"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_498","lowdown_346"],"featImg":"lowdown_18404","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_27194":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_27194","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"27194","score":null,"sort":[1496448507000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1496448507,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Trump Just Backed Out of the Paris Climate Deal. 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Here's What the U.S. Is Walking Away From","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/MRCRiMNg_kM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump on Thursday announced plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, a landmark international agreement to reduce planet-warming emissions that nearly every country in the world signed on to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're getting out,\" Trump said at a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden, a fulfillment of his long-held campaign promise to walk away from an agreement he's assailed as a bad deal for American workers and industries and one that gives other countries an edge over the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our withdrawal from the agreement represents a reassertion of American workers’ sovereignty,” he added, noting the possibility of renegotiating the deal under terms more favorable to U.S. interests. \"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years before becoming president, Trump criticized the very \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump-hoax-scott-pruitt.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concept of climate change\u003c/a>, calling it everything from “nonexistent\" and “mythical” to a \"very expensive, hoax!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement ends months of speculation over the direction he would go in. Some of the most conservative members of his administration — namely top aide Steve Bannon and head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt -- had advocated strongly for walking away from the deal. More recently, though, a number of influential advisers, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former head of Exxon Mobil) -- had lobbied for staying the course, in part to avoid likely diplomatic blowback. So too had a host of major corporations, including several energy industry giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the U.S. withdrawal sent shock waves around the country and the world, prompting scores of foreign leaders and U.S. city and state officials doubled down on their commitment to reducing carbon emissions. Per the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will likely withdraw over a 3-year period, which means it won't officially exit until, coincidentally, a day after the next presidential election. It will then join Syria and Nicaragua as the only three countries not involved in the pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Key goals of the deal\u003c/strong> (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374\">BBC\u003c/a>)\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Curb the rise (\"peak\") in global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as soon as possible and by the second half of this century establish a balance between GHG sources and \u003ca href=\"http://www.livescience.com/32354-what-is-a-carbon-sink.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sinks\u003c/a> (natural systems that suck up GHGs in the atmosphere and and store them).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep global temperature increase \"well below\" 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and continue to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Review progress every five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wealthy nations commit to spending $100 billion a year, by 2020, to finance climate initiatives in developing nations, with a commitment to continue financing in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In December 2015, representatives of 195 nations agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by a set amount over a specified time period, with the overall goal of preventing global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures (when we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels). Anything beyond that would likely result in irreversible, catastrophic environmental consequences throughout the world, including rapid sea level rise and devastating floods and drought, according to a broad scientific consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations conference on climate change, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.cop21paris.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP21\u003c/a> (Conference of Parties), followed nearly 20 years of mostly failed efforts. The deal also includes pledges from the world's wealthiest nations and largest emitters to raise billions each year to help poor countries build more sustainable economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27221\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-27221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1020x757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1020x757.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-800x594.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-768x570.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1180x876.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-960x713.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-240x178.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-375x278.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-520x386.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historical emissions\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration, which took a lead role in brokering the Paris accord, committed the U.S. to reducing emissions by at least 26 percent of 2005 levels over the next decade, and offering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/politics/obama-climate-change-fund-3-billion-announcement.html\">$3 billion in aid \u003c/a>for poorer countries by 2020. Although it makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. is second only to China in greenhouse gas emissions, and historically, the largest contributor to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In cumulative terms, we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does,\" David G. Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-biggest-carbon-polluter-in-history-will-it-walk-away-from-the-paris-climate-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> told The New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's why Trump's decision to renege on America's commitment to reducing emissions has dealt such a harsh blow to a deal that many world leaders consider the last, best international opportunity to avoid the most destructive impacts of a changing climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visualization below was created by \u003ca href=\"http://duncanclark.net\">Duncan Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://bosker.wordpress.com\">Robin Houston \u003c/a>of the the design \u003ca href=\"http://kiln.it\">Kiln\u003c/a>. It uses a distorted interactive map to show how much each nation has contributed to carbon emissions and how vulnerable each is to its impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.carbonmap.org/\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"27194 https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=27194","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/06/02/trump-just-backed-the-u-s-out-of-the-paris-climate-accord-this-is-what-were-walking-away-from/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":800,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map","https://www.carbonmap.org/"],"paragraphCount":15},"modified":1496707653,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"","title":"Trump Just Backed Out of the Paris Climate Deal. 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Some of the most conservative members of his administration — namely top aide Steve Bannon and head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt -- had advocated strongly for walking away from the deal. More recently, though, a number of influential advisers, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former head of Exxon Mobil) -- had lobbied for staying the course, in part to avoid likely diplomatic blowback. So too had a host of major corporations, including several energy industry giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the U.S. withdrawal sent shock waves around the country and the world, prompting scores of foreign leaders and U.S. city and state officials doubled down on their commitment to reducing carbon emissions. Per the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will likely withdraw over a 3-year period, which means it won't officially exit until, coincidentally, a day after the next presidential election. It will then join Syria and Nicaragua as the only three countries not involved in the pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Key goals of the deal\u003c/strong> (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374\">BBC\u003c/a>)\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Curb the rise (\"peak\") in global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as soon as possible and by the second half of this century establish a balance between GHG sources and \u003ca href=\"http://www.livescience.com/32354-what-is-a-carbon-sink.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sinks\u003c/a> (natural systems that suck up GHGs in the atmosphere and and store them).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep global temperature increase \"well below\" 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and continue to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Review progress every five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wealthy nations commit to spending $100 billion a year, by 2020, to finance climate initiatives in developing nations, with a commitment to continue financing in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In December 2015, representatives of 195 nations agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by a set amount over a specified time period, with the overall goal of preventing global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures (when we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels). Anything beyond that would likely result in irreversible, catastrophic environmental consequences throughout the world, including rapid sea level rise and devastating floods and drought, according to a broad scientific consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations conference on climate change, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.cop21paris.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP21\u003c/a> (Conference of Parties), followed nearly 20 years of mostly failed efforts. The deal also includes pledges from the world's wealthiest nations and largest emitters to raise billions each year to help poor countries build more sustainable economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27221\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-27221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1020x757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1020x757.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-800x594.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-768x570.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-1180x876.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-960x713.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-240x178.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-375x278.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions-520x386.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2017/06/historical_emissions.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historical emissions\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration, which took a lead role in brokering the Paris accord, committed the U.S. to reducing emissions by at least 26 percent of 2005 levels over the next decade, and offering \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/politics/obama-climate-change-fund-3-billion-announcement.html\">$3 billion in aid \u003c/a>for poorer countries by 2020. Although it makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. is second only to China in greenhouse gas emissions, and historically, the largest contributor to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In cumulative terms, we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does,\" David G. Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-biggest-carbon-polluter-in-history-will-it-walk-away-from-the-paris-climate-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> told The New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's why Trump's decision to renege on America's commitment to reducing emissions has dealt such a harsh blow to a deal that many world leaders consider the last, best international opportunity to avoid the most destructive impacts of a changing climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visualization below was created by \u003ca href=\"http://duncanclark.net\">Duncan Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://bosker.wordpress.com\">Robin Houston \u003c/a>of the the design \u003ca href=\"http://kiln.it\">Kiln\u003c/a>. It uses a distorted interactive map to show how much each nation has contributed to carbon emissions and how vulnerable each is to its impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.carbonmap.org/\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/27194/trump-just-backed-the-u-s-out-of-the-paris-climate-accord-this-is-what-were-walking-away-from","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_509","lowdown_242","lowdown_457","lowdown_572","lowdown_243"],"tags":["lowdown_394","lowdown_2337"],"featImg":"lowdown_26662","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_26657":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_26657","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"26657","score":null,"sort":[1492757407000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1492757407,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"INTERACTIVE: The Paris Climate Accord, Explained?","title":"INTERACTIVE: The Paris Climate Accord, Explained?","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c!--more-->On the campaign trail last May, then-candidate Donald Trump declared: \"We're going to cancel the Paris climate agreement ... and stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As president, however, Trump now appears less determined to pull the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 international agreement that committed nearly every nation in the world to reduce planet-warming emissions. Contrary to his earlier statement, he doesn't have the power to \"cancel\" the multilateral U.N. accord, but could substantially weaken it by withdrawing the U.S., which is the world's largest economy and one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the deal, the U.S. promised to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26 percent of 2005 levels within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most conservative members of his administration -- namely Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, still advocate walking away from the deal. But Trump's hesitation has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/politics/trump-advisers-paris-climate-accord.html\" target=\"_blank\">grown recently\u003c/a> as a number of his closest advisors, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former head of Exxon Mobil), have urged him to stay the course in order to avoid diplomatic blowback. A host of major corporations, including several oil giants, have also endorsed the pact. The administration is expected to make a final decision at the end of May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Trump chooses to remain in the accord, it's highly unlikely his administration would adhere to the ambitious emission-reduction goals set by his predecessor; Trump has already made an aggressive push to peel back many of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/climate/trump-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\">energy regulations\u003c/a> put in place by President Obama that would have helped achieve those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.carbonmap.org/\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In December 2015, representatives of 195 nations agreed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/12/world/paris-climate-change-deal-explainer.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark climate accord\u003c/a>, which required each participating nation to significantly lower its greenhouse gas emissions as part of an urgent international effort to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was the culmination of two intense weeks of negotiations between delegates from every corner of the globe, who gathered in a huge tent-city compound on the outskirts of Paris to iron out the countless details involved in one of the most complex international deals ever attempted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Key goals of the deal\u003c/strong> (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374\">BBC\u003c/a>)\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Curb the rise (\"peak\") in global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as soon as possible and by the second half of this century establish a balance between GHG sources and \u003ca href=\"http://www.livescience.com/32354-what-is-a-carbon-sink.html\" target=\"_blank\">sinks\u003c/a> (natural systems that suck up GHGs in the atmosphere and and store them).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep global temperature increase \"well below\" 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and continue to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Review progress every five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wealthy nations commit to spending $100 billion a year, by 2020, to finance climate initiatives in developing nations, with a commitment to continue financing in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The United Nations conference on climate change, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.cop21paris.org/\" target=\"_blank\">COP21\u003c/a> (Conference of Parties), followed nearly 20 years of largely failed efforts to forge a meaningful international agreement to lower GHGs. Many world leaders, including President Obama, considered these negotiations the last, best chance to prevent global temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal: to stop global average surface temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures (when we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels). Temperatures rising above that 2 degree threshold would likely result in irreversible, catastrophic environmental consequences around the world, according to broad scientific consensus. That could include rapid sea level rise and devastating flooding and drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep global average temperatures a bay, each of the participating nations -- which are collectively responsible for almost 98 percent of global emissions -- have to dramatically reduce their own \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html\" target=\"_blank\">greenhouse gas (GHG)\u003c/a> emissions (including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane). But that's a tricky proposition: Some countries have been emitting GHGs for decades, even centuries, and reaping huge economic benefits, while many other \"developing nations\" are just beginning that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The deal, therefore, not only requires rich countries to significantly cut their emissions, it also mandates that they pay poorer countries to also cut emissions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.unep.org/climatechange/adaptation/\" target=\"_blank\">adapt\u003c/a> to the impacts of a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\u003c/a> noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The new deal will not, on its own, solve global warming. At best, scientists who have analyzed it say, it will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by about half what is necessary to stave off an increase in atmospheric temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. That is the point at which scientific studies have concluded the world will be locked into a future of devastating consequences, including rising sea levels, severe droughts and flooding, widespread food and water shortages, and more destructive storms.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The deal also came under fire by some environmental activist groups who argue it's too weak to effectively prevent environmental disaster. They deal, they note is largely \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/10105422/paris-climate-deal-history\" target=\"_blank\">voluntary\u003c/a>, lacking the necessary legally binding emissions reduction requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the U.S. pledge to reduce emissions by 26 percent of 2005 levels is more ambitious than some large carbon emitting nations like Russia, it pales in comparison to many other developed countries, including the 28 European Union nations, who have all committed to at least a 40 percent GHG reduction below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signatories are legally required to meet every five years -- beginning in 2020 -- with updated emissions goals, but the goals themselves are not legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"26657 https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=26657","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/04/20/trump-and-the-paris-climate-deal-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":938,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.carbonmap.org/","https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map"],"paragraphCount":18},"modified":1523465501,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"","title":"INTERACTIVE: The Paris Climate Accord, Explained? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"INTERACTIVE: The Paris Climate Accord, Explained?","datePublished":"2017-04-20T23:50:07-07:00","dateModified":"2018-04-11T09:51:41-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-and-the-paris-climate-deal-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/26657/trump-and-the-paris-climate-deal-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c!--more-->On the campaign trail last May, then-candidate Donald Trump declared: \"We're going to cancel the Paris climate agreement ... and stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As president, however, Trump now appears less determined to pull the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 international agreement that committed nearly every nation in the world to reduce planet-warming emissions. Contrary to his earlier statement, he doesn't have the power to \"cancel\" the multilateral U.N. accord, but could substantially weaken it by withdrawing the U.S., which is the world's largest economy and one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the deal, the U.S. promised to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26 percent of 2005 levels within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most conservative members of his administration -- namely Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, still advocate walking away from the deal. But Trump's hesitation has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/politics/trump-advisers-paris-climate-accord.html\" target=\"_blank\">grown recently\u003c/a> as a number of his closest advisors, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former head of Exxon Mobil), have urged him to stay the course in order to avoid diplomatic blowback. A host of major corporations, including several oil giants, have also endorsed the pact. The administration is expected to make a final decision at the end of May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Trump chooses to remain in the accord, it's highly unlikely his administration would adhere to the ambitious emission-reduction goals set by his predecessor; Trump has already made an aggressive push to peel back many of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/climate/trump-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\">energy regulations\u003c/a> put in place by President Obama that would have helped achieve those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.carbonmap.org/\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In December 2015, representatives of 195 nations agreed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/12/world/paris-climate-change-deal-explainer.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark climate accord\u003c/a>, which required each participating nation to significantly lower its greenhouse gas emissions as part of an urgent international effort to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was the culmination of two intense weeks of negotiations between delegates from every corner of the globe, who gathered in a huge tent-city compound on the outskirts of Paris to iron out the countless details involved in one of the most complex international deals ever attempted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Key goals of the deal\u003c/strong> (from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374\">BBC\u003c/a>)\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Curb the rise (\"peak\") in global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) as soon as possible and by the second half of this century establish a balance between GHG sources and \u003ca href=\"http://www.livescience.com/32354-what-is-a-carbon-sink.html\" target=\"_blank\">sinks\u003c/a> (natural systems that suck up GHGs in the atmosphere and and store them).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep global temperature increase \"well below\" 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and continue to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Review progress every five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wealthy nations commit to spending $100 billion a year, by 2020, to finance climate initiatives in developing nations, with a commitment to continue financing in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The United Nations conference on climate change, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.cop21paris.org/\" target=\"_blank\">COP21\u003c/a> (Conference of Parties), followed nearly 20 years of largely failed efforts to forge a meaningful international agreement to lower GHGs. Many world leaders, including President Obama, considered these negotiations the last, best chance to prevent global temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal: to stop global average surface temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures (when we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels). Temperatures rising above that 2 degree threshold would likely result in irreversible, catastrophic environmental consequences around the world, according to broad scientific consensus. That could include rapid sea level rise and devastating flooding and drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep global average temperatures a bay, each of the participating nations -- which are collectively responsible for almost 98 percent of global emissions -- have to dramatically reduce their own \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html\" target=\"_blank\">greenhouse gas (GHG)\u003c/a> emissions (including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane). But that's a tricky proposition: Some countries have been emitting GHGs for decades, even centuries, and reaping huge economic benefits, while many other \"developing nations\" are just beginning that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.cartodb.com/viz/5a27f02a-9f9b-11e5-922c-0e3a376473ab/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The deal, therefore, not only requires rich countries to significantly cut their emissions, it also mandates that they pay poorer countries to also cut emissions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.unep.org/climatechange/adaptation/\" target=\"_blank\">adapt\u003c/a> to the impacts of a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\u003c/a> noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The new deal will not, on its own, solve global warming. At best, scientists who have analyzed it say, it will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by about half what is necessary to stave off an increase in atmospheric temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. That is the point at which scientific studies have concluded the world will be locked into a future of devastating consequences, including rising sea levels, severe droughts and flooding, widespread food and water shortages, and more destructive storms.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The deal also came under fire by some environmental activist groups who argue it's too weak to effectively prevent environmental disaster. They deal, they note is largely \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/10105422/paris-climate-deal-history\" target=\"_blank\">voluntary\u003c/a>, lacking the necessary legally binding emissions reduction requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the U.S. pledge to reduce emissions by 26 percent of 2005 levels is more ambitious than some large carbon emitting nations like Russia, it pales in comparison to many other developed countries, including the 28 European Union nations, who have all committed to at least a 40 percent GHG reduction below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signatories are legally required to meet every five years -- beginning in 2020 -- with updated emissions goals, but the goals themselves are not legally binding.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/26657/trump-and-the-paris-climate-deal-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_509","lowdown_242","lowdown_457","lowdown_572","lowdown_243"],"tags":["lowdown_394","lowdown_2337"],"featImg":"lowdown_26662","label":"lowdown"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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