Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘ecosystems’

Biodiversity and diversity “terms that mean the same? possibly victims of the trivialization and many more …

If we look at web definitions of these two words at random could find:

Biodiversity:
“Referring to the wide variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns that shape out of thousands of millions of years of evolution by natural processes and also the increasing influence of human activities.”

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In 1994 began the world’s conversion fierce field that brings destruction to millions of farmers and transferred control of power large multinational companies, whose only commitment is to make the land pay the most in the shortest possible time, destroying ecosystems, depleting and polluting natural resources and destroy the entire the village grew with “shock wave”.
From this year the selling price from the producers of staple crops for humans such as corn, wheat and rice have fallen dramatically, although this does not happen with the price we must pay the ultimate consumers of this product.

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Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms, terrestrial, marine and water ecosystems and the ecological complexes they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and within and between ecosystems.
The diversity of human culture can be considered as part of biodiversity.

Because it has several attributes that can be considered a solution to the problems of survival in a particular environment (nomadic, crop rotation). It also helps people adapt to environmental changes. Cultural diversity is reflected in the diversity of language, religious beliefs, practices of land management, art, music, social structure, the selection of plants in food and all the attributes of the community.

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