MOP Additions

Intro 1:

• The quality of our diets have declined dramatically, leading to malnutrition and an assortment of health and dental problems.

• So-called “diseases of affluence” (heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and so forth) are not only on the rise, but reaching crisis levels with each passing day – diseases that are virtually unheard of in “primitive” societies.

• There are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 30-times over, and every day the risk of nuking ourselves out of existence is a very real and distinct possibility.

Intro 2:

As Rebecca Dunbar-Ortiz states, “these are symptoms, and there are many more, of a deeply troubled society, and they are not new.” (2014, p. 230)

MS1:

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” -Bertrand Russell

Health 1:

“I have not found any evidence that there were children with diet-related diabetes in these parts of Brazil until enterprises like the Nestle boat” came along, writes British doctor and medical journalist Chris van Tulleken. But as soon as the Nestle corporation plied indigenous groups with junk foods that replaced their healthy diet, children’s health dramatically declined. (Gopnik, 2023)

LG1:

Following the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Congress paid Revolutionary War veterans with plots of land in the Northwest territory, North of the Ohio river, which of course, was not their land to give away. “The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians,” Congress pledged in the act, “their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent, and, in their property rights and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress.” Of course, this was a paper promise, pledged even as the U.S. was giving away Indian land and breaching this decree. (Lepore, 2023)

MH1:

(Burke et al., 1991) A person born in 1905 had just a 1% chance of developing depression during their lifetime, but by 1955, 6% of those born that year would develop depression before their 24th birthday. (Klerman & Weisman, 1989)

MBook Reffs

Doyle, J.J., Peters, H.E. (2007) “The market for foster care: An empirical study of the impact of foster care subsidies.” MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER Working Paper, March

Doyle, J.J. Jr. (2007a) “Child protection and child outcomes: measuring the effects of foster care,” MIT Sloan School of Management & NBER, working paper

Doyle, J.J. Jr. (2007b) “Child Protection and adult crime: Using investigator assignment to estimate causal effects of foster care,” MIT Sloan School of Management & NBER Abstract