Background Information
It’s provided by World Health Organization for the remote village in Sarawak, Borneo which was dying from malaria.The cats were delivered in crates, dropped by parachute, as part of a broader program of supplying cats to combat a plague of rats due to the cat population in Borneo had decreased by spraying DDT for malaria control.
How is systems thinking essential and important in researches and decision-making processes?
WHO aka World Health Organization failed considering one aspect of the system rather than the entire system. They thought the mosquito was the cause of malaria so they decided to get rid of it by DDT without any hesitation of the effect of DDT can harm the other organisms.
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