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Myth Of Progress
After reading The Myth of Progress I have learned different ways to approach a problem in a more effective way. I think of how things are connected to each other and how systems lie within other systems. Everything is connected and feeds off each other in ways that I would not have originally thought of. One example that was used was how the forest lives off all the organisms within it, all their actions can be used for energy for another organism. There is no waste and its goal is to reach an equilibrium in energy distribution. It is helpful to think of the energy going into and coming from systems in everything, the goal should to be to reach a balance so that the system can be predicted and understood. The forest does not seem like a very

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