Some resources for Systemic Thinking

This is an advertisement from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This could be used as a tool to engage learners in systemic thinking as it could access background knowledge as well as provide learners with some new information which would allow them to build a systems model.

I was looking for an image that may depict systemic thinking and came across this one on someones blog on website called Eco-Localizer the blog is entitled  What we can't see, we can't consciously change. In this blog the writer states 'We cannot hope to apply the necessary systemic thinking to our converging crises, because no one has a full view of the system. We can't see what we can't consciously change.' This picture is almost used as the image of this inability to stop this downward fall of environment and society due to human actions. He then goes on to say that what we need is to localise production to combat the current ecological and social crises. However, I disagree with him. This picture shows we have 'full view of the system' we know what is causing the problems, it is just a matter of looking at the connections and pin-pointing where to start. If we all thought systemically imagine what sort of world it would be. This is what we need in education.

We cannot hope to apply the necessary systemic thinking to our converging crises, because no one has a full view of the system. What we can’t see, we can’t consciously change.

Source: EcoLocalizer (http://s.tt/12uqG)