Module 2

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My diagram shows the chain of negative effects that humans have created for themselves, such as overpopulation and worsening health conditions, and how these effects have affected nature and the ecosystem. I used a systems perspective by having the two different columns represent a social system and ecosystem respectively. By adding bio generators to the ecosystem, my diagram shows how the generators can help improve all of the negative conditions that humans have created in the social system. My diagram is a combination of positive and negative feedback loops. For example, by using the generators, there is less of a need to collect firewood, which is negative feedback. However using the generators also requires people to gather more animal waste, which is a positive feedback loop. My diagram has both similarities and differences to diagram 1.5. Both diagrams talk about the human population and the needs that are created when more people are living in an area. However, my diagram focuses more on personal effects such as health and education whereas diagram 1.5 focuses more on labor and the demand for certain goods. By comparing both diagrams, we can learn that there are many different effects when comparing two different systems and how they interact. There are so many different interactions that most likely no two diagrams will ever be the same, and comparing the two diagrams allows us to see this.

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  1. Hello, Christopher! My name is Julie, and I am an Education Major! I agree that there are many negative outcomes by cooking with the wood including the harmful smoke given off and deforestation. Our diagrams are similar in a sense, but there are a few differences. Just like yours, my diagram expresses how the fuel (fire wood) the Indians originally used caused education and health problems, and how biogas generators reduced those problems. Your diagram is different because you take broader concepts into consideration, while I showed small-scale concepts. However, I realized from your diagram that trees and shrubs contribute to animal waste. For what ever reason, I did not think about how those two link!

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