Loka's Sustainability Concept Mapping by Loka QIU (7ADT)

Sustainable Development

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:28:03 UTC

Sustainable development is developing the economy while staying sustainable and keeping stability with nature. It is a circluar system with little waste. It leads to improvement and balance in the society, helping to educate people. Sustanable developmment can be seen everywhere, including green space, solar energy, and recycling. In uwcsea dover, there is lots of sustianablity because of the brilliant solutions. As an example, the water system recycles the rainwater from the "rainforest" and runs down to the waterfall, finally being stored under the swings.

System Thinking

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:29:55 UTC

System Thinking is a way to understand the world by looking at and breaking it down into systems. Through system thinking, we can appretiate that the world is connected.

Natural Environment

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:32:54 UTC

Natural Environment is a natural area that was not been influenced by human. The animals and plants live peacefully together, hunting just enough for their survival and the survival of others, keeping a balance in all life. It is usually a circular system wherein as animals eat each other and give birth to another, and plants grow, die, regrow. These environments include amazon rainforest, the deepest sea, rivers, and jungles. However, because of human pollution and climate change, these natural environments are becoming lesser and lesser. In order to survive, humans need to consider saving the earth.

Intended and Unintended Consequences

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:33:19 UTC

Often, what people intended to do leads to some unintended consequences. In most cases, people intended to do good, which the unintended consequences are bad. As one example, you want to help make the world sustainable by picking up trash, but in the end you are using plastic bags to hold the trash, which also harms the earth. Climate change was not intended. Humans did not forsee the damage to the planet when they first started to burn fossil fuels, cut down trees, and creat industries that released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, until now. Another example is the operation cat drop. The WHO sprayed DDT around the island in 1950s because there were many malarias. However, the uninteneded consequences of this is it accidentally killed the parastic wasps who control the population of thatch eating catipellars. Unfortunately, the dayak people's roofs are made out of thatch and soon the roofs were broken. Geckos also ate lots of DDT and cats who ate geckos died. Now, the rats are flourishing and the plague. People are harming the earth right now without intending it, such as using plastic coke bottles for convenience, changing new iPhones every 2 years, buying too much food that eventually was thrown away, and more.

Human Environment

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:34:23 UTC

Human environment is once a natural environment that humans have changed and used for their own needs. It is usally a surrounding where humans live, work, and interact with each other. It usually includes a linear economy as humans would rather single use one item than trying to recycle. There is a variety of human environments, including industrial factories, cities, sustianable neighborhoods, farms and fields, and more.

Economic Growth

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:34:30 UTC

Economic growth is an approach to society when people care more about how much money they earn rather than caring what unintended causes they create. In this type of society, there is often much use of oil, massive workforce, pollution, and more. In the end, only the top of society gets the money, while all of society are forced to pay the cost: the earth itself.

Linear Economy

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:34:38 UTC

Linear Economy is a system wherein as peope buy a product and then throw it away after use. This is a very unsustainable economy that harms the earth's resources. As an example, fast fashion, which are cheap clothes that were not designed to be worn long, has glitters on their clothes. These glitteres are microplastics and when dumped in ocean, damage the ocean and marine animals.

Natural Resources

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:34:53 UTC

Natural resources are often useful materials found in natural environments and became essential for human activities. There are two types of these resources: renewable resources such as solar energy and wind energy, and non renewable resources such as oil, nuclear power, and various metals. However, people are extracting way too much natural resources, impacting the ecosystems.

Circular Economy

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:35:05 UTC

A circular economy is a different system that does not encourage single using. The process involves a sustainable design that will reduce the raw materials and may use biomimcricy, reusing and recycling the waste.

Sustainable Solutions

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:35:12 UTC

Sustainable Solutions are solutions to the environmental problems that are occuring around the world, such as solving climate change. The solution to all of these problems are to change the end goal, focusing on sustainability rather than money. As an example, one of the sustianable solution to discarded nlyon fishing nets in Philiphines is to use a team of people who collect, export, and finally recycle the nlyon yarn into carpets.

Systems

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:35:19 UTC

Systems are structures that have many parts which are interconnected to achieve the goal of the system. As an example, the digestive system includes oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus. These parts act together to break down food into nutrients such as carbohydrates andn fats.

Interconnections

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:35:40 UTC

In systems, every diverse part of the system is interconnected. They support and work with each other for a common goal. As an example, in a river system, there is a network of a source, tributaries, flood plains, and wetlands related with the main river.

Holistic Approach

qiu130234_2 — 2023-12-19 00:35:57 UTC

Holistic approach is an apporach to a problem by reconsidering and regonising the importance to treat the situation as a whole, rather than individual parts, but the conncections between each component. To have a holistic approach, it is important for one to have a system thinking, such as viewing the problem in a complex and interconnected way, rather than just linear cause and effect. The solution to human pollution and making a sustianable development requires holistic approach, by trying to mainatin economic growth while conserving natural resources; protecting natural enviornments and maintianing a circular economy.