Leylany Alvarez Milflores November 10th 2010
Biodiversity has a very important role in this life; in fact its all the beauty we can see on the outside, what gives color and importance to the planet Earth.
As a more formal definition, biodiversity it’s all the variety of species and ecosystems in planet earth. The quality of biodiversity measures how healthy the biosphere is. Now a days there are millions of different species in earth that contribute for a common good, but also we are destroying some species, not reconsidering in the effect this will do in the future, that’s why we are talking about the importance of it.
First of all we have to mention that biodiversity has direct economic, aesthetic and scientific values. Since we all live in the same planet, and we all are contributing species (talking of humans, plant, animals, ecosystems) we need each other to survive.
Biodiversity brings a huge number of goods to the society, meaning medicines, crops, nutrition, clothes, that’s why it affects economically, because the extract of these assets, can be sold. The indirect economic value also has to be mentioned, humans find difficult to identify this benefits because they can’t be given a price, such as air, water purification, the making of oxygen and climate regulation. Having all this under control will generate a healthy biosphere in charge of: protect us against floods, generate healthful fertile soils, detoxify and discompose wastes and regulate climates.
Every day the presence of plants and organisms its more useful, as scientists say biodiversity inspires curiosity to them, in the scientific value it is important to preserve biodiversity, so the scientists can continue studying it, and discovering ways of saving it, the more they understand it, the greater uses we find for it.
For humans it is important to see there is beauty in the environment we live, because as a law of life, all kind of beauty always attracts humans. Otherwhise if we saw earth as a desolated landscape we wouldn’t care to improve it or take care of it. As an example of this are the mountains, are poor in diversity of species and habitants.
As humans are the only beings that can reason, we are the ones in charge of controlling or maintain biodiversity but as matter or fact, sadly human population is the major fact affecting the environment, if we study all the problems we are facing today, we would notice that they were caused because the increase of population. Every time we can notice changes in our way of life, for example the pollution of water with oil, acid rain, extinction of animal, diseases, deterioration of environments, among many others. But few people is trying to stop this. But not everything its bad there are also campaigns to maintain biodiversity, the problem here is the lack of consciousness.
We can see that México’s economy has been impacted, in real cases we are living. For example what just happen in Veracruz
Leylany Alvarez Milflores November 10th 2010
Finally. My proposes to make Yucatan
· As Yucatán has a lot of vegetation and jungle, and everyday more people come to live in Yucatan, it think it would be good idea if the government bought part of this jungle and do not sell it to build houses never , also the lands sold should be a bit smaller.
· Also Yucatán its very reach in species of animals, I would like to purpose the government to not ever make legal the hunting of this species.
As a conclusion the loss of biodiversity it’s a major problem now a days and we are making it minor, all the people should be aware of what will happen in a future, we should start caring for biodiversity as many people care about money.
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