It has been trending upwards over the past 150 years since the industrial revolution.

Governments, industry and people everywhere have to start reducing fossil fuel pollution as if our lives depended on it. Actually, the very survival of tens of thousands of species does depend on action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Students learn about the revolution that has occurred in the past few decades transforming society and permanently altering the status of men as well as women, ... They ask why, despite legal and social progress, women are still grossly under-represented in key leadership positions. They examine myths and facts so they can learn from the past to achieve more as individuals and leaders in their communities. They also examine the nature of social movements and the role of opportunity and risk takers.

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.