Vandana Shiva’s ‘What is Biodiversity and Why is it so Important?’ is an selection that gave me something to think on. According to this passage biodiversity is described as the diversity of life. There are many life forms that are the “very fabric of life.” Biodiversity shows the many ways in which life is expressed in our world. Biodiversity is considered to provide the life’s development and can be genes to species to the ecosystems that work in coordination to create and maintain life.
I’ve never thought of biodiversity because to me this is such a complex system that is far broader than thinking on average day. The environment has always just been “there”, just “is”. It does make sense that if we destruct a part of the environment in which we live it will basically be the destruction of the diversity in which we all live as each change we make changes something surrounding it. Sadly, the extinction of some species, such as some birds, fish, predator animals, doesn’t just affect that species it also is a threat to all the other species that are supported by it in some way by the ecological process. Large dams, pesticides and chemicals, manufacturing, highways, and the development of our communities have caused much harm to all species survival.
There are millions of life forms that have a value in our world in which each life form has a right to develop however they want or need to. Due to the development, Shiva points out that biodiversity has been destructed to such an accelerated pace that plant and animals that have always been popular have totally disappeared with the last few years. This doesn’t just affect the plants and the animals but also affects the human race. We must have each aspect, from genes to species to the ecosystem to work together in order to have a healthy environment. Broken down this seems much simpler to understand in this complex environment we all live in.
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