The thing that intrigued me most about this course is how things that might seem very little to us can have huge impacts on society or on the world, or on a human life.
Before this course i was always very skeptical of things i did being able to affect the world on a macro level. If my target bag flew away i would try to get it yes but if i wasnt able to i would say oh well it's just one bag. Now i know that it's that "just one bag" that affects the whole world. Same with global warming, i would think that the world is so big the things i do couldnt possible have an effect on the world.
This goes beyond pollution, with intersexed children the choice the parents make at the time most likely doesnt seem as big of a decision as it ends up being. This one choice will greatly affect their child's life for the rest of their lives. This can also be seen with addiction, trying that drug that one time can lead to a lifetime of addiction.
I now know that i just have to realize what im doing and the affect it can have. Just being knowledgeable is a great start. If i know the effects of the little things i do or the possible affects i can change the damaging things and hopefully help the world and environment a little bit at a time. If everyone then went and had this attitude the world would be a much better place.
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I definitely agree with you, and I briefly mentioned this within my post. No one realizes how important it is to consider the "big picture" consequences of every individual thing that we do. And I think the poster presentation illustrated this notion very successfully. It's so easy to get caught up in your own specific way of thinking, that you fail to recognize all the other components involved. I think this is the whole point of education,especially within the humanities because being knowledgeable is about being open-minded and realizing that there is a big world outside of Minneapolis, or wherever your from, and we can't be narrow-minded,and still be fortunate enough to experience all that the world has to offer.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. People never really realize how much their actions can have an effect on the rest of the world. I know that I fall guilty to this, I may not recycle a bottle or leave a piece of trash on the ground and just think, well it's not going to matter if I dispose of it in the proper way because I am just one person and what can I do? But in fact, so many people think this way that it all really adds up, and each individual really does have a greater impact on the world than he or she might think. This reminds me of the poster presentation of the gyre. I have never heard of this problem before, and it's scary to know that this probably cannot be solved, but just maybe further prevented in the future. It really shows that if we all think that something doesn't matter like reusing plastic bags or using disposable plastic water bottles instead of reusable ones, we are hurting the environment and the world. We need to realize that yes we can make a difference, even just one person by changing his or her perspective.
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