DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

- The 9-minute video published by California Academy of Sciences talks about how important it is for us to maintain biodiversity.

- Biodiversity affects humanity mainly in three ways: (a) Direct services, (b) Indirect services and (c) Ethical effects.

- Some of the direct services that biodiversity provides us with are food, clothing, shelter, transportation and medication. We still use wood in the construction of houses which is sources by biodiversity. Medication is obtained from biodiversity by observing organisms interact with each other and the way they live in their environment.

- One of the indirect services that biodiversity provides us with is habitats for organisms. Organisms require shelter and food for survival, biodiversity provides these necessities to them. We are majorly impacted by the organisms in the ecosystem, and those organisms can only thrive provided there is biodiversity.

- Ethical effects of biodiversity are determined by us. A drop of biodiversity, the removal of biodiversity or the extinction of a species will all affect the future of biodiversity. Lost biodiversity is something we cannot bring back. The ethical quality of the environment that future generations should inherit, will decrease.

- We are the stewards of the environment, but we are also the major influence on environmental quality and ecosystem function through our activities such as pollution, over fishing, etc.

- If we reduce biodiversity to the point where the loss of species in the ecological food web causes an ecological collapse of that system, we are going to be part of that collapse.