Why Project 2025 is Morally Backwards.

Project 2025?

    
You might have heard, but were nearing elections in the USA. This time there feels to be more paranoia than normal. From a quick glance it looks horrific and brutish. So, I want to go through some of the parts relating to what I learnt this semester. As well as go over the consequences and the history of these issues. The following issues I will be touching on are:
  • Women's issues
  • Education issues
  • Environmental issues
    Which are all conveniently talking points of the project.




    I will discuss the issues in two parts. The first part will be discussing what was discussed in class. What the document says they want to do regarding those topics. And then I will be talking about the history of said issue and why this is a problem for everyone. Starting with education.

Education

  • In class we discussed the potential benefits from education in lower poverty areas.
    • More opportunities 
    • Better economy 
    • More company's and organizations provide aid for this (Klassen, 2024)
Although these benefits are entirely true, there are other things to regard such as high drop outs. Plus benefits that racism and social stigmas completely stop it from being a viable option. Even if on paper these things are really good. With this new mandate by conservatives more issues arise and make pre-existing ones worse.
  • Protecting the federal student loan portfolio from predatory politicians. (pg.322)
    • In other words, ending the student loan forgiveness plan
      • This is an issue because people who aren't able to afford post secondary school will struggle even more than before just to go to school
  • Eliminate Impact Aid not tied to students.
  • Move student-driven Impact Aid programs to the Department of Defense Education Authority (DoDEA) or the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education. (pg.236)
    • The student-driven Impact Aid system was designed to give more personal interaction with the students. To give them a voice and let them grow and develop when no one would give them a chance to succeed.
  • The issue is self explanatory, a system that helps kids grow and do better especially minority and marginalized groups would be eradicated.

Personal


You don't have to read all the next photos, I wanted to include this because it affects me and people I care about. However, I didn't wanna cheat the word count, I'll summarize it after.
(mandate for leadership pg.332-334)



These paragraphs are mostly saying that sex is gender, and gender is biological. All related data collected is to stop being collected. As they don't believe being non-binary is real. Nor do they believe you can change your sex. Anything Biden did for non-binary people and transgender people is to be stopped and forgotten. 

That's not everything this section had, but I need to keep going. In summary, they want to remove systems designed to help minorities and marginalized groups. They want to ban the idea of non-binary and gender. They want to end the student loan forgiveness program. This removes all the efforts from people to better their lives by giving more opportunities. Whilst making an effort to make more schools private. Which is more expensive, this would make it harder for poor people to be able to get the education they deserve.

Women's Issues

What we leant in class.
  • On the wheel of power, women have less power than men.
  • Empowerment is better than answers.
  • Neo-feminism is more hurtful to women than not.
  • Economic empowerment leads to freedom.
What I'm about to talk about may not seem like it is related at first. I feel as though I can prove that it is. Most of chapter fourteen  talks about two major things. Disincentivizing doctor's decisions based on financial gain. And making abortion as inaccessible, expensive, and perhaps unsafe as possible. The mandate calls for: 
  • Promote women staying at home. (pg.451)
  • Ban chemical abortions. (pg.458)
  • Ban abortion meds by mail. (pg. 459)
  • Ban abortion based research. (pg.461)
  • Ban funding for out of state/country abortion. (pg.471)
  • Lower funding for daycare. (pg. 486)
Now you might be wondering, "how does this connect to themes of women empowerment?" Well, if we take what we learnt in class, one of the key themes is economic liberation. The mandate wants to promote women staying at home. When women are forced to stay at home they aren't able to work towards economic freedom, they are stuck taking care of the house and children. This connects to all the abortion bans. The bans make it so women are forced to take care of children they may not have wanted or even have the means to take care of. They are then busy taking care of their kids, that they can't take to daycares. If this goes through it will most likely reduce the amount of daycares. Further limiting the ways to have children taken care of without a mother present. The mandate is hyper Christian in nature so the man is excepted to provide, which if you ask me isn't very empowering or equal.

Environmental issues

In class we learned about sustainability, its importance, and possible ways we can use it. Showing other people its good to use too. What Project 2025 wants to do is completely overshadow that and make it so all sustainability efforts are to be stopped for the sake of profit.
  1. Pg.420
    1. Efforts should be cheap and easy.
  2. Pg.421
    1. Get rid of the department of environmental education and make it part of general affairs.
  3. Pg.422
    1. Stop grants that could help environmental research.
  4. Pg.425
    1. Ignore petitions to make cleaner but more expensive fridges.
  5. pg.426
    1. Stop trucks from being sustainable if that means higher prices.   
Environmental studies is my background, so I have an idea of what's happening already and the consequences.

(from government of canadas website "daily data report jult 2024"
here we can see a chart of weather in Kelowna, because according to CT news only the West Coast is normal temperature. I'm using a city I've been in a lot this year to showcase the dramatic differences.
(from CTVnews "It'll be a warmer-than-normal summer everywhere in Canada—except coastal B.C.: ECCC")

As we can see in the first chart, the hottest temperature in July 2024 is 38.6 Cº
Now if we go back ten years, the hottest was over two degrees colder than the present average.
(July 2014)
(July 2024)
That is nearly a three degree increase in average, what causes this? Well, greenhouse gasses and ozone destroying important things like ammonia. Coincidentally found in fridges to make them cheaper. I assume you already know how this works, so I'll be concise. The trucks are being told to cut back on sustainability for cost reasons. This means they will release a lot of c02 and formaldehyde (OEHHA, 2001) which burns ozone. Meaning more solar radiation gets through. Which wouldn't be too bad, but all the green house gasses trap the heat inside the ozone. More heat is getting in and less is getting out, heating up the planet. Each degree contributes to warming the poles, which releases methane (WWF, 2024) which speeds the process up further.

What does all of this mean?

Throughout this Blog I have shown off some of the backwards things and the potential consequences that project 2025 wishes to impose. They want to make schooling harder to get and lower the quality. Trap women into having children and staying at home (against their will), which hinders their economic freedom and is demeaning. And wants to bring back all the excessive chemicals that contributed to the fragile state our planet is in now. Luckily we won't have to deal with the first two living in Canada, but the environmental issues affect everyone, which is quite frightening.

References

Sims, Kearrin, and Nicola Banks. The Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2022.

“Impact Aid Program.” Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 22 May 2024, oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/impact-aid-program/.

“About DOD Education Activity.” Military OneSource, 2 May 2024, www.militaryonesource.mil/resources/gov/department-of-defense-education-activity/#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Defense%20Education,behalf%20of%20the%20Defense%20Department.

Middlehurst, Tom. “What Is Student Impact?” SecEd, 5 Oct. 2023, www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best-practice/what-is-student-impact/.

Roberts, Kevin. “Mandate for Leadership the Conservative Promise.” Edited by Paul Dans and Steve Groves, Project 2025, 12 July 2024, static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf.

What Are Private Schools?, learn.org/articles/What_are_Private_Schools.html. Accessed 25 July 2024.


It’ll Be a Warmer-than-Normal Summer Everywhere in Canada—except Coastal B.C.: ECCC, bc.ctvnews.ca/it-ll-be-a-warmer-than-normal-summer-everywhere-in-canada-except-coastal-b-c-eccc-1.6922868. Accessed 25 July 2024.

“Government of Canada.” Climate, / Gouvernement du Canada, 27 June 2024, climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?StationID=51117.

“Teacher Background: The Cloroflurocarbons.” Global Monitoring Labratory.https://gml.noaa.gov/education/info_activities/pdfs/TBI_the_chlorofluorocarbons.pdf


“Melting Glaciers and Methane Emissions.” WWF Arctic, www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/stories/melting-glaciers-and-methane-emissions/. Accessed 25 July 2024.

Oehha.ca.Gov, oehha.ca.gov/air/health-effects-diesel-exhaust#:~:text=Diesel%20exhaust%20is%20produced%20when,as%20benzene%2C%20arsenic%20and%20formaldehyde. Accessed 25 July 2024.


                                                                                                                                                                             

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