Biodiversity is the diversity of living beings and how they support each other. Humans support each other in various ways – bees collect pollen from flowers to make nectar, some of it is taken by the honey bears, some to eat for himself, the rest for his cubs. The cubs can be used to study more about honey bears, and so on. The possibilities are – almost – endless. Without the bees, the pollen will not be removed from the flowers (assuming that the birds, butterflies, and wind don’t interfere). If the pollen isn’t removed from the flowers, the flowers will die. If the flowers will die, that means that there will be less oxygen in this world. One step forward to extinction.
Biodiversity includes not only animals but also humans. If humans were all the same – same way of thinking, same way of dressing, same taste of music and humor, etc – people can’t help each other in their problems, because well… they’re just the same. Nothing is created the same because everything is created to help each other, just like LEGOs. If you are missing just a little brick, your creation can collapse. The LEGO bricks are diverse, like humans – some of us are the foundation, some of us are the decorations, and some of us are the bricks, etc. We need each other.
If we remove the foundation, the creation would collapse, if we remove the bricks, the creation would be left unfinished, etc. Everyone is important, we have our own role in life, they have their own. The diversity of living beings are very important – without diversity, the ecosystem could collapse. Biodiversity is found everywhere. From the planets to the elements. From mars to jupiter, from hydrogen to oganesson. Imagine if everything was the same. Life will be rather dull.
Since life began on Earth, five major mass extinctions and several minor events have led to large and sudden drops in biodiversity. The Phanerozoic eon (the last 550 (?) years ago) marked a rapid growth in biodiversity via the Cambrian explosion – a period during which the majority of multicellular phyla first appeared. About the next 400 million years included repeated, massive biodiversity losses classified as mass extinction events. In the Carboniferous, rainforest collapse led to a great loss of plant and animal life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, 251 million years ago, was the worst; vertebrate recovery took 30 million years. The most recent, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, occurred about 65 million years ago and has often attracted more attention than others because it resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Biodiversity is not evenly distributed, rather it varies greatly across the globe as well as within regions. Among other factors, the diversity of all living things depends on temperature, precipitation, altitude, soil, the presence of other species, etc.
“Biodiversity’s relevance to human health is becoming an international political issue, as scientific evidence builds on the global health implications of biodiversity loss. This issue is closely linked with the issue of climate change, as many of the anticipated health risks of climate change are associated with changes in biodiversity (changes in populations and distribution of disease vectors, scarcity of fresh water, impacts on agricultural biodiversity and food resources etc).”
~ Wikipedia
Biodiversity also has a connection to the digital world. For example; Google needs a healthy place for their databases. They need a place with clean water, a place with little to no pollution, and a place that’s safe from pretty much any natural disaster. All to keep the data safe. The space needed for one of those databases are very large. About the size of a small city. So, if more and more people start using more and more data, then where will we build farms and barns? In a place as big as a small city, that has clean water, fresh and good soil, and unpolluted air, won’t that be a perfect place to build farms and barns? If all the “good” places at the earth are now digitized by the databases, then how will we get healthy food, clean water, and fresh, unpolluted air? That can disturb the ecosystem, and you do not want the ecosystem to fall apart. Well unless you’re evil and everything.
The growing demand and lack of drinkable water on the planet presents an additional challenge to the future of human health. Partly, the problem lies in the success of water suppliers to increase supplies and failure of groups promoting the preservation of water resources. While the distribution of clean water increases, in some parts of the world it remains unequal.
Without biodiversity, the ecosystem could collapse, and that will have a very great impact to the living being that lives at earth. Without biodiversity, the planet could collapse. Biodiversity is very vital for pretty much everything that is alive.