Genuine question. I was talking to someone recently and they asked me this and while I had some answers (mentioned below), I didn’t have confidence in my answers.
I know climate change is a threat to biodiversity and that it’s important to preserve it but I was never told why biodiversity is important. Is it to keep ecosystems in check (I feel like this is probably one of the most important reasons)? Is it to just give humans a bunch of species to look at and appreciate? Is it to ensure that if the human population died, some forms of life would remain that would be fit for whatever catastrophe affected human populations and keep life going?
Is it all of these things? Any other reasons?
Thank you!
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Well, let’s roll it back a bit and think of just people. We’re all different. I’m more of a maths and science sort of person. People like me can study things and invent stuff that makes life easier or even possible. On the other hand, my wife is much more the artistic and emotional type. People like her make things which make life worthwhile, or help us deal with difficult situations. Humanity thrives with different types of people work together.
In a similar way, nature thrives when different species of plants and animals “work together,” each fulfilling different roles.
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