RESHAPING ENVIRONMENTS SEMESTER 1 2014WEEK 1 REFLECTIVE JOURNALNAME: ZEYU LI (VICKY)STUDENT NUMBER: 634091

INTRODUCTION

As the lecture presented on Monday, reshaping environments is talking abouthuman-physical environment and also highlighting the relationship between thehuman and environments. Being an architectural student, understand how humanrelate with environment is critical important. In this subject, I want to have a clearthoughts about this relationship and set up a system critical thinking. Moreover,because I never done reflective journal before, how to write reflectively and how toimprove my skill are also the personal goals that I want to achieve.

REFLECTIVE JOUNRAL FOR WEEK 1

HUMAN IMPACTS AND COLLAPSEThis week’s reading mentioned one thing that I really interested at is human impactson environments may cause a society collapse. The mismatch of the endless seek forresources and destroy the resources which we have is becoming a biggest concern tothe society; moreover, the conflict of the interests in a short term and in a long termwill cause a unsustainable decision.From my personal experience I’m really agreethat unsuitable human activities will make a society chaos. As I’m a Chinese, Chinahas a lot of environmental questions. Like my city, Ningbo. Actually, due to the seekof underground water cause a subtle sink of ground and the soil in Ningbo is notsuitable for underground subway. However, because of the huge benefits it can bring,the process still going. Furthermore, people in Greenland destroy resources and logforest, it will cause soil erosion and deforestation, thus less land can be used foragriculture and may cause they’re nor enough food for the whole society. Thisreminds me when I went back to China this winter holiday, I found that city becamebigger and bigger, a huge number of skyscraper buildings stand on where used to bethe farmland. Soil erosion and deforestation which Diamond mentioned in Greenlandalso happened in China. In this week’s tutorial, a question most impressed me is “dohuman know these things will cause collapse?” However, people knows clearly whatthey are doing, like people around me, nearly most of them know should choose agreen transportation to avoid global warming but just few of them actually do that,the rest of them have bought cars, use petrol and release carbon dioxide. Due theconflict of interests between human, I realized that it is really different to avoidsociety collapse just by one people.