Assignment:
Choose an individual action and trace its systemic environmental reach, citing the scope of environmental inputs and outputs. Be as specific to your home community as possible.
Perhaps, you can consider the example of electric light. Cite factors such as:
1. Where is the electricity reaching your home generated?
2. What are the means of electric production used? What are the environmental impacts of this production?
3. How is the electricity transmitted?
4. What are the resources involved in the electric infrastructure?
5. What becomes of the waste materials of the electric lighting process?
Some individual actions you might choose:
- Driving a car
- Ordering French fries at a fast food place
- Applying cosmetics
- Watching television
- Brushing teeth
- Mowing the grass
- Micro-waving a prepackaged dinner