In my diagram I constructed a model that represented the process behind the social and environmental systems in India. The human population in India is large and with this is demand for ways to cook food and with the new technology available of biogas, the villages can use renewable resources like cow dung to convert it into a fuel source for preparing food. Considering that India is a poorer country the availability of a free resource is a sustainable key resource to these individuals livelihood. With this technology it gives the mothers time to make money off the compost that farmers use.

My diagram differs from the figure in the reading because the Chinese seem to be burning anything available when the Indian’s seem to be burning only twigs and branches. But our diagrams are alike in that the population of China and India both demand biogas generators and compost. The reason for these similarities and differences are due to the environmental differences and poverty being the similarity between the two cultures. I learned that after looking at my diagram and the diagram displayed in figure 1.5 is that china doesn’t really care for the education of poorer students compared to India’s seemingly demanding importance in the education community.