investigative report

DHM 1101 WICKED PROBLEMS OF INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE Activity ! 1

Your name: Rahf Almutari

What Makes a Problem Wicked 1. Evaluate whether the following problems discussed in The 11th Hour are truly wicked. Make brief notes in the first two columns; then check the remaining columns that you think are relevant. Do each of these problems exhibit all six characteristics?

Vague problem definition

Undefined solution No endpoint

Irreversible Unique Urgent

Climate change Climate change or global warming is when you start feeding off of the fossil fuel cycle, we began living with death based cycle and that death cycle with dependance on extraction of those resources set in motion of events that has led us to our modern crisis of global dustrbance known as climate change.

- Flood and high rises of water.

- The increasing of the temperature and drought.

- Causes flames on the forests.

No Yes Yes Yes

Biodiversity loss Losing of the variety of life in the world or ecosystem is the biodiversity loss.

- Losing Biodiversity make the system start falling apart.

- Extinction and losing many kind of species.

Yes No No Yes

2. Now that you understand what “wicked” means, list at least one wicked problem that you noted during the film that does not appear on the above list (review your movie note template).

The ocean crisis that is occurring right know, we have taken too much out of the ocean, we have put too much into the ocean “too much pollution”, and we wrecking the edge of the ocean.

We are really removing millions-billions of animals from ocean every year, and many of them don’t even become food for humans, they just are wasted.

Population growth The increasing of people and their need is known as population growth.

- Over population leading to environmental problems.

- People need food and supply, more people need more food and more supply, and this is a disaster for the environment.

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Deforestation Cutting trees and releasing the forest is known as deforestation.

- Drought and expanding desert.

- River stop flowing.

- Rains become irregular.

- Crop will fail.

- And that causes hunger and starvation.

No No Yes Yes

Nonrenewable resource use

Nonrenewable resource is the cornerstones of thew system that we have, the system that are are all resting upon nonrenewable energy-rich carbon we call fossil fuels.

- The asthma rates among children.

- The acid rains problem that caused by burning coal.

No No Yes Yes