My diagram of India’s biogas generator’s effects show how everything is connected. It shows how one invention can solve so many problems for their people. By having the biogas generator, cooking can be done with no smoke which would improve the quality of the air protecting their health and environment. The children would have more time for their studies as they wouldn’t have to hunt for wood and therefore improving their education. Incomes would increase not only for the manufacturers and sellers of the biogas generators but also for the farmers who would be selling the cow dung and for the women who sell the dirt residue. Both the wood burning and biogas concepts for cooking effect the landscape. In comparing my diagram to that of Figure 1.5 in the Marten reading “What is Human Ecology?”, I find that they are the same in the way they are set up. We both touch on some of the same factors but the Figure 1.5 diagram seems to stay focused on the breakdown of materials needed for fuel for the biogas generator and on the people cooking food. My diagram focuses more on the benefits and effects of the biogas generator on the environment and the people. I feel that the similarities are because we were presented with the same information and there are differences due to our personal interpretation. Figure 1.5 shows us more of the deforestation and mine shows more of the impact on personal lives.