Happy Fish Lab Summary:
Doing the Happy Fishing Lab showed an example of how people in the real world use natural resources. In the lab one person at my table really rushed into trying to get the most fish to support himself & his family, which made everyone at my table, including me see him as competition. This resulted into all of us rushing & trying to get the most fish. In the end we didn't realize that we wasted all the fish, and didn't have any left to fish for next year. No one even thought about sacrificing any fish for more fish to come because we all were so caught up in the moment of making the most money. Since each different color of fish had different values we were all striving for the most valuable fish. This taught me how easy it is for people to waste natural resources such as water, trees, oil, etc. For example in the article "Easter's End" they ran out of natural resources that resulted into starvation & cannibalism. People use so much without thinking what might happen in the future. In this society we waste more than we actually use. We barely think about reusing what we got, & reducing what we buy. People don't realize that there are resources that take a long time to grow back and may not even come back, especially resources that are very rare. Rare resources make it difficult for those to find & get, so people will fight for them the most. I suggest the best way to use natural resources wisely is to plan it out first so you can predict the outcome of what your actions may result into.