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I love the idea of biodiversity, I love seeing the huge variety in nature. But for 99.9% of people would make zero difference their lives. except maybe crop ext
by x87678r 6y ago
I love the idea of biodiversity, I love seeing the huge variety in nature. But for 99.9% of people would make zero difference their lives. except maybe crop extinction
I understand why I'm being downvoted. The point I'm arguing is " They ended up flat-out asking me why anyone should care about biodiversity." If you down vote me please write an note saying how biodiversity makes a difference to the life of the average person.
- disposekinetics 6y agoExactly, the natural world, nature is disturbing and messy and it is hard to like it. I want conservation to the degree I want to breathe and eat so I do what I can to be green and invest in green tech. I don't think my life would change materially if I was on a hypothetical space station with very good life support. I suspect the difference is an emotional connection?
- VikingCoder 6y agoWe are currently on the only viable space station that we have or know of, Earth. Until we have a better answer, we should work damn hard to keep this one running. And we don't know enough about how it works, so we should try preserve the current systems as well as we can.
- disposekinetics 6y agoI agree with you wholly on that, replacing current tech with green tech and conservation are our best chance at keeping our life support running.
- peppery-idiot 6y agoBiodiversity is not about enjoying nature. It is key to the stability of how humanity currently lives on Earth. The term to research for why biodiversity is useful in a utilitarian anthropocentric way is "Ecosystem Services". The only way we know how to keep what we have is with biodiversity.