Bryan Keen, Blog assignment

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/obama-state-of-the-union-_1_n_813478.html

The link above shows an example of technological optimism. It is President Obama's State of the Union speech 2011. In his speech he promoted education, science, technology, engineering, and math. He spoke of innovation and how the United States needs to remain the technological super power of the world.

"To attract the best jobs and newest industries, we’ve got to out-innovate, out-educate, out-build and out-hustle the rest of the world" -Barack Obama

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/seven-billion/kunzig-text

The above link shows an example of environmental warning. It is an article from National Geographic about world population. It warns that with world population growing at a rate of about 80 million people each year water tables are falling, soil is eroding, glaciers are melting, and fish stocks are vanishing.