Reflect on What Is Biodiversity and Why Is It so Important?

It is a realistic truth that human development, and I am referring at the economical and technological aspects, have affected the balance of our biodiversity. In my opinion the human population has become so greedy and selfish that it never thought about their surroundings. It has always been about “how can we be better and make our lives easier” but not once have we thought about how we can keep our diversity, what can we do to maintain it or to make it better. I think it is very true in the article when they refer to us as ignorant, everything has been created for a purpose and I sometimes don’t understand why is it so hard for us to keep a balance with our diversity if our ancestors did it for so many years. Maybe ambition? Power? It just seems that we consider ourselves with the power to manipulate and destroy because we are the top of the food chain or the more intelligent? we are wrong… we are the most ignorant species on earth, the only one that creates things to destroy our own and others and is not even for necessity of survival. It touches me when I see all these documentaries about what we have done and the saddest thing is that most of what is done can not be fixed, we already killed (I consider this is the term that we should use) lots of animals and plants, we are trying to replace them with ones created in labs and what about the environment do we really think: how this can be affected? Oh no I guess what really matters is that it “satisfies our needs”. It’s ironic that now that we see how the ecosystems have changed and the effects that are bringing us now we do care about our environment after harming it so much so now it’s important because it’s affecting us not because of what we did already and hurt a lot of different living organisms. The only thing I can say is that we can not recover the lost but it is important to try and save what we have and for this we need a lot of education and change our views of what we have and what we need.