Peak Oil - Possible Outcome

Over the past few GP lessons, we researched on our topic focus which was the future aspect of peak oil in a hypothetical situation "If the world's oil ran out today.." We then had to come up with an outcome, and we were wondering how to connect our research with a final product. And just our luck, Jacelyn wasn't in school that day, so it was basically us 3 cancers, and cancers are known for their tendency to procrastinate. Thankfully, we managed to stay on track even without our "shaper", which was something I think our group should be rather proud of :)

We decided that our project would focus on reducing the reliance on oil, narrowing it down to reducing reliance on oil-based products, which we further focused on discouraging the use of plastic bags. Our target audience would be the students of the school. Thus, we came up of a plan to make a video which will show the product of our research, and conduct campaigns to encourage students to use recycle bags instead of plastic bags. But when Jacelyn returned to school, she raised the issue of the financial side to this project, and we all agreed that it would be too much to handle.

So, after much much discussion, our final product would be a dramatic movie-like video showing the future after oil has run out to show the effect if humans were to continue our habbits and to immediately catch the attention of the audience, followed by a presentation on how to live sustainably to prevent this terrible future from happening. We would like to present our final outcome preferably during an assembly where we can target all the secondary students at once.

We are currently planning our video, and hopefully we'll get it done soon.

Wiki

Our group peak oil wiki (:

Peak Oil - Topic Focus

During the lesson, we discussed on our topic focus for peak oil. We were all very intrigued by the aftermath of peak oil. So we finally came up with "What were to happen if oil ran out today?" which was basically a worst-case scenario. We were all interested in different aspects of it. I was particularly interested in the social element of individuals. What would individuals do to survive? Would it lead to riots and wars possibly? Jia Yi was interested in transportation, Jacelyn wanted to focus on the energy aspect and also the governments' actions, while Mia liked the concept of immigration.

We then had to decide on what our final product would be. We had trouble with this because we thought that our individual focuses were so different. However, we later realised that our focuses actually linked, so we paired up to work more efficiently. I was paired up with Jacelyn to explore the social impacts on the governments and the people. We will slowly work towards a final product.

Wen Wen (:

FISHBONE DIAGRAM

*ta-da!*
Our fishbone diagram.

Fishbone reflection.

We have successfully completed our fishbone diagram. We grouped and colour coded our different perspectives. We also separated our points into two arguments: positive and negative. We had a lot of points for our future perspective. I feel that we have managed to cooperate well to produce this fishbone diagram, even though there were a few arguments along the way.

Wen Wen (:

Group work reflection.

So far, our group work on peak oil has been going very well. We were very organised and we successfully distributed the work out to each team member so work could be done more efficiently. Each of us researched on different areas and perspectives such as national, global and future, which we then combined in a google docs. This allowed us to review the information our other team members got and also input our own ideas to their existing information. It was a collaborative effort and every one of us contributed equally. Some of the work we even took home to work on.

Overall, I am really glad and satisfied with our group work and how we have managed to work as a group.

Wen Wen (: