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PHL201 - System Thinking is Critical For Developing Solutions to Sustainability Challenges

   

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[SYSTEM THINKING IS CRITICAL FOR DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS TO SUSTANABILITY CHALLENGES]FRACKING IN AUSTRALIA[Year][Type the company name][Type the author name]

INTRODUCTIONA system is a set of detached elements interconnected with each other to toil towards a universal purpose. The fact that systems thinking are useful for dealing with various wicked problems cannot be under-estimated in totality. By systems thinking, it means that concentration is put upon those areas and the linkage between those parts which would enableproduction of solution to the issues. Sustainability is the need of the hour alongside development. Sustainability challenges basically focuses upon how the individuals will utilisethe resources which are being provided to them by nature. The threat to sustainability due to the acitvites performed by the human beings is numerous in nature. Australia is one such country along with United States and Canada who is lazybones when it comes to adhering to sustainability practices. Australia has a huge reservoir of eccentric gas, specifically CSG and shale. It is around four times more than the conventional gas resources the country possesses. Maximum part of the exploration i.e. fracking occurs in Queensland’s Surat and Bowen Basin and NSW where the reserves are comparatively small in quantity (Swayne, 2012).The country failed to understand that the development of the industrial segment will have a negative implication on the social environment. One of the most important issue for the Federal Government of Australia is that of the coal seam gas (CSG) development in the east coast of the country. The possibilities of leakages and spills has been one of the most striking concerns with regards the extraction of the said gas. The said procedure of extraction of CSG is known as fracking. Although system thinking is critical for developing a solution to this issue of fracking and the after effects it has on the people and the environment around, yet thesame cannot be said to be an ultimate solution. The said essay will ensure to reveal and make it clear that system thinking has a major contribution to make in developing solution to the said issue. WHAT KIND OF ISSUS HAS FRACKING LED TO?Even though it is agreeable to concentrate upon resolving towards one issue at a time, however while doing so, such as resolving the issue of domestic energy consumption may lead to global warming. The environmental costs of fracking for oil and gas are a deterioration of the quality of the air one breathes, the nearby habitats and pollution. Frackingin Australia has led to the emergence of various issues and in the 21st century, the said extraction policy has gained more importance. It has attracted not only those people’s attention who are a direct sufferer of the same but also the eminent scholars and researchers

as well who are trying to evaluate the fact that the fracking procedure has led to development and invention of various new kinds of disarticulation and disempowerment, altering associations between people and technology and changing relationships between people and the environment they stay in (Elias, 2013). Fracking is a consequence of recognized power fabrication patterns, as well as new socio-technical experience. Even though it is a much more mechanized procedure, yet it enlarges routes of physical and social implications which had been started in the previous ages of resource extractions. Even though newer methods forthe extraction of fossil fuels have been found out, yet they fail to cater to the after effects and how to control the same as there is no such legislation pronounced by the government of Australia unlike the United States who have currently introduced legislation to control these hazardous pollutants from fracking gas well (Theodori, 2009). The fracking procedure has led to invention of newer issues such as on the water bodies. These are very much different to the conventional ones. Post the 11th Circuit Court of Appealsruled in 1997 that fracking should be regulated as a form of underground injection by the “plain language of the Safe Drinking Water Act,” it looked as if the developing technology would be monitored federally by the EPA and by various states individually under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) plans. UIC plans basically would have demanded printing of the chemical hazards suffered due to fracking at the state-level and further observing and safeguarding of underground sources of drinking water. Unfortunately, in lieu of safeguarding their market forte along with progression of eccentric fossil fuel reserves, the oil field service industry very conveniently lobbied an exemption in the Safe Drinking Water Act 1974 (Willow & Wylie, 2014). Thus one of the most striking impact fracking has had is on the water bodies adjacent to the place of the procedure. SYSTEMS THINKING IN DEVELOPING SOLUTON TO THE ISSUE OF FRACKING IN AUSTRALIAAround 440 million hectares of Australia comprises of coal and gas licenses or applications. The fact that natural gas in Australia is the best example available with regards sustainability challenge. As per the thought process laid down by the government and the various business houses, giving away of the ‘green tape’ is a method of increasing productivity. However, in view of the same, they fail to understand that while doing so they fail to keep in mind the negative impact it has on the environment as well as the health of the public at large. The gas companies are huge proponents of cutting ‘green tape’ as they always try to find out ways

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