SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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Species extinctions are decreasing.
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We would increase our ability to find new plan species.
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Food webs do worse with more diversity.
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Humans rely on biodiversity for items such as food, medicine, aesthetics, and oxygen.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biodiversity underpins the health of the planet and has a direct impact on all our lives. Put simply, reduced biodiversity means millions of people face a future where food supplies are more vulnerable to pests and disease, and where fresh water is in irregular or short supply. For humans that is worrying.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Indirectly, changes in ecosystem services affect livelihoods, income, local migration and, on occasion, may even cause or exacerbate political conflict.
Detailed explanation-3: -Biodiversity plays a vital role in maintaining human and animal health. A wide variety of plants, animals, and fungi are used as medicine, essential vitamins, painkillers, and more. Natural products have been recognized and used as medicines by ancient cultures all around the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the movie “Medicine Man” we can clearly see how the people benefited from the biodiversity in providing them with their medical need. Dr. Campbell, for example, stayed in the Amazonian rainforest to study the environment has stumbled upon a flower in the ecosystem that possibly cure cancer.
Detailed explanation-5: -Climate change. Pollution. Destruction of habitats. Invasive alien species. Overexploitation of the natural environment.