Describe another environmental example of an unintended consequence. If possible

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Describe another environmental example of an unintended consequence.   If possible, describe something from where you currently live or a place that you have lived. Make sure that you describe it well enough that your classmates who are not from that area can understand the issue and make some comments about it. Include in the discussion, what is going on today and trace it back to the root cause. And remember from the AVP, that the root cause may seem like something that is totally unconnected.Think about all the protests occurred a few months ago about the Dakota Pipeline. People were protesting because they were (are still?) worried about a potential problem with their drinking water if the pipeline is put in place as planned and it leaks. Do the pipeline owners intend it to leak? Of course not! But if it is put in place and it does leak, even 30 or 40 years from now, will it be an unintended consequence? No it will not. And that is because people can foresee a problem and want to prevent even the chance of it happening.

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In the social sciences:-

unintended consequences  are outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a purposeful action.

Unintended consequences can be part into three types:

Possible causes of unintended consequences include the world's inherent complexity

one of example in INDIA is of:-

Seat reservations and corruption: The law of unintended consequences

Here if India follows one law it is the law of unintended consequences and attempting to obtain an objective we end up getting something quite different & often undesirable.Seat reservations based on caste here a typical case. This Introduced after Independence to ameliorate millennia of social oppression, seat reservations have intensified, rather than mitigated, caste conflict & further frayed country’s already tattered social fabric.

A student has recently passed his Class 10 exams with 85% marks. He advised by the teachers at his school that instead of pursuing his current studies to Class 12, he should do government-approved vocational training in polytechnic. It will give him a much better chance of getting good job than continuing with formal education.

Here job market is desperately overcrowded with schoolers and even graduates and post-graduates who remain unemployed because of lack of practical skills.

The student has applied for seat in the recommended polytechnic’s three-year IT course. With his 87% marks. He should no problems getting the admission he wants But except that, by law, 80% of the seats in the polytechnic are reserved for SC/STs, social categories to which he does not belong and the principal of the polytechnic is prepared to consider his application favourably if his father can cough up Rs one lakh, over and above the normal fees of the institution

His father, who earns a monthly salary of Rs. 15,000, to find Rs one lakh?here one thing also that It’s not that the principal is a particularly greedy or corrupt person. It’s just like everything and everyone else, he’s following the economic law of supply and demand.

The supply of merit-based seats in educational institutions and jobs falls short of the ever-increasing demand because of reservation and result is that a cash on merit is introduced into the educational system and the employment market. The aim of social uplift through reservations has given rise to corruption.

At last the road to hell is proverbially said to be paved with good intentions, here In India infernal highway is paved with the law of unintended consequences.

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