Microsociety Journal Week 1

Scarcity

In microsociety this week, we had to decide on a name and a symbol for our class. Each table had to come up with their own name; symbol and we had to vote. The symbol for our class was voted for first and the symbol that won was a smiling face with crazy red hair (and I don’t mean orange hair I mean RED hair). After that we had to vote for a name. My table’s idea for the name was “The Democratic Republic of Mensa,” (Mensa being our class name our class name). The name that won was “Mentropolis” a name that I personally am not very fond of, but that is only my opinion. Other names were things like “Mega Mensa” or “The Spinner” and the one that I voted for was “Mega Mensa” but it did not win although it came second.

Next week we will have to decide on the currency. Anyway, scarcity is when you don’t have enough of what you need NOT what you want. We read a story about a planet called “Just Enough” and they had lots of trees and lots of the food packs that they wanted but less of the food packs they needed. Then one day the trees and the planet start getting ill and the planet starts running out of the food packs that everyone wants and they change the name of the planet to “Not Enough” then the people have to start eating the food packs they don’t like but need. The same thing will happen to us if we waste paper and don’t put paper in the recycling bin. The thing that the planet didn’t have enough of was the things they needed and the thing we won’t have enough of if we don’t look after our environment is oxygen or natural resources.

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Heloise Roberts