1. Why should you work hard to learn algebra when the type of problems in this book are not likely to be done in your life?

2. Knowledge http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/the_expansion_o.php

3. Knowledge http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/the_expansion_o.php

4. US population Graph

5. World Population Graph

6. Gini Coefficient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

7. Consequences of Wealth Disparity SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Income Alternative Poverty Estimates in the United States: 2003, Report P60, n. 227, Tables B-1 and B-3, pp. 18, 20. Income Inequality and Homicides (r = 0.47, p = 0.02)

8. Consequences of Wealth Disparity http://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-world#WorldBanksPovertyEstimatesRevised Income Inequality and Social Mobility (r = 0.93, p < 0.01)

9. Health Care http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php

10. Prison Population

11. National Debt

12. US Peak oil

13. World Oil peak

14. Oil Discoveries Source: www.aspo-ireland.orgwww.aspo-ireland.org Source: www.aspo-ireland.orgwww.aspo-ireland.org http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php

15. Summary of Oil production Status Of the 65 largest oil producing countries, 54 have passed their peak

16. Driving Mileage http://www.project.org/info.php?recordID=443

17. Natural Gas http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/11/27/61031/618

18. Coal Appalachia Coal – Peak in 1940 http://steveaustinlex.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/you%E2%80%99ve-met-peak-oil-welcome-peak-coal/

19. World Peak Coal Study Concludes “Peak Coal” Will Occur Close to 2011 2 August 2010 A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011.concludes After 2011, the production rates of coal and CO2 decline, reaching 1990 levels by the year 2037, and reaching 50% of the peak value in the year 2047. It is unlikely that future mines will reverse the trend predicted in this business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, according to the study, which was published in the journal Energy. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/08/peakcoal-20100802.html

20. Electric Energy Production distribution of sources http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/pdf_graphs/USELEC.pdf

21. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3786 EROEI

22. To Replace Non-Renewable Energy with Renewable Energy Produce 100 square meters of photovoltaic cells every second for 25 years Install 50 square meters of mirrors for solar thermal every second for 25 years Build one 3-megawatt wind turbine (100 meter diameter) every 5 minutes for next 25 years

23. What is needed to achieve this? Build a 3 gigawatt nuclear plant every week for the next 25 years (US has 8-10 planned for next decade) Bring a 300 MW steam turbine on line (for geothermal) every day for the next 25 years. For biofuels, fill an olympic sized swimming pool with genetically engineered algae every second for the next 25 years. This would be approximately like covering Wyoming with the algae.

24. An Effort equivalent to Retooling for WWII GM and Ford combined could make 1 wind turbine every 5 minutes Nokia, Intel, AMD, Apple could produce the necessary photovoltaic cells Coke and Pepsi in 10 years could make enough solar thermal mirrors using the aluminum that would be used for cans to produce 2 TW of power. Necessary land area for all of this would be the 7 th largest country in the world (between Australia and India).

25. Nuclear Fusion Combining nuclei of smaller atoms to make larger atoms, thereby releasing energy. This is what happens with stars No radioactive or carbon waste. Potentially 20 or more years from being viable

26. Nuclear Fusion The NIF & Photon Science Principal Directorate is one of five directorates at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. The directorate operates the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world´s largest and highest–energy laser, which has the goal of achieving nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for the first time – in essence, creating a miniature star on Earth.Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryNational Ignition Facility A technician inspects a final optics assembly on the NIF target chamber.

27. Water Resources http://webworld.unesco.org/water/ihp/db/shiklomanov/part'3/HTML/Fi_21.html

28. 1950 2010 Fig. 28. Water availability by natural-economic regions of the world: 1950 - 2025. Thousand Cubic Meters per year per capita

29. Climate Change http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/graphs-diagrams-of-global-warming-and-climate.html

30. Ocean Acidification Figure 1: Changes in Sea-Surface pH from Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions (pre-industrial to 1990s) Note: Lower pH indicates greater acidity (see Box 1: Understanding the pH Scale) Source: Pacific Science Association, 2007Pacific Science Association, 2007 http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/245

31. Plastic Pollution September 4, 2009--Tangled with plastic, rope, and various aquatic animals, a "ghost net" drifts in August 2009 in the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, a loose, free-floating "dump" twice the size of Texas.Texas http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/pacific-garbage-patch-pictures/index.html

32. Marine Fisheries

33. You are part of the Keystone Generation

34. We are the Keystone Generation

35. The Keystone Generation needs to understand the current situation and develop solutions. This requires mathematical knowledge of which Algebra is the base.

36. Other, more personal motivators You chose to attend college to gain knowledge. The ability to reason quantitatively is critical in our technological world. Getting a job to support your family is very competitive. What would make someone hire a person with insufficient mathematical skills or work ethic when there are plenty of people with the skills and willingness to work?

37. Other, more personal motivators Algebra skills are assumed knowledge in college math classes. Consider that if you don’t work hard and learn the concepts this time, you will have to pay for the class again and eventually work hard enough to be successful anyway.