Why Is It Important for Communities to Take Responsibility for Their

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Essay

Why is it important for communities to take responsibility for their own (local) environments if our goal is to improve the global environment? Provide an example to support your answer.

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Definitions:

Inducing Structure

Refers to the cognitive processes involved in identifying the underlying structure of a problem or situation to facilitate understanding or problem-solving.

Relations

The ways in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected; a particular way in which someone or something is related or connected to something else.

Analogy Problems

Logical puzzles or questions that require solving by finding relationships between pairs of words, ideas, or situations.

Mental Set

The inclination to approach situations with a predetermined framework of understanding, often based on former experiences, that could potentially limit novel solutions.