The Overview Effect
December 21, 1968
What is the date Apollo 8 launched?
A group of parts that act together within a relationship, and are organized for a common purpose
What is a system?
It includes all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning not artificial
What is a natural environment?
Examples include forests, fish, fruit, and vegetables
What are biotic resources?
From afar it looks like a living, breathing organism
What is planet Earth?
The idea of unity and oneness of the whole, the idea that the parts are not separate.
What is a holistic perspective?
It includes the interactions between the human individuals/societies and the natural environment
What is a human environment?
These either form slowly or do not naturally form in the environment.
What are nonrenewable resources?
The idea that from one perspective, the earth is one system, and we're all part of that system
What is the Overview Effect?
A way of seeing the world as interconnected systems which is useful when trying to understand issues and problems that exist.
What is systems thinking?
Natural resources
What are resources that exist without the actions of humankind, that occur in nature and can be extracted and harvested?
An increase in an economy's ability to produce goods and services
What is economic growth?
Examples include iron ore, sand, and water
What are abiotic resources?
Mental models are at the bottom of this.
What is the iceberg model?
Erosion and clear-cutting of forests
What evidence of human intervention in the environment can you see from space?
Well-being for all, within the means of nature, and not at the cost of it
An example of a biotic, nonrenewable resource
What are fossil fuels?
A person notices certain information and experiences, based on the information and experiences around them.
What is the 2nd step of the Ladder of Inference?