Re:The Future of Cities
by lg on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:00AM
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everything from our pets to our lawns to our roads and farms does damage to biodiversity though, which ultimately makes all life less resilient.
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Re:The Future of Cities
by Ericson2314 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:42AM
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Yay I'm not the only one! Preserving biodiversity is oft-unstated most important goal of environmentalism. It's our meta-darwinian imperative.
Why would we care about biodiversity? There are only two reasons that come to my mind, and both IMO should be addressed directly:
- because it's cool and fun to have all those cute plants and animals around
- because biodiversity reduces the chance of sudden ecological collapse that would leave us without food
Re:The Future of Cities
by Ericson2314 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:40PM
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- Ecological fortitude as you say. Good for food but cleaning up our other messes which can harm us.
- Biodiversity helps us understand life better by providing exceptions to dogmas
- Biodiversity is the crowning achievement of this earth and would take along time to recover. We can colonize other planets more easily than we can replicate our biodiversity on them.