The Pros And Cons Of Biodiversity

At present, Earth is experiencing the largest extinction to date, triggered by the increase of human activity in recent decades, which has been made inexorable succeeding population growth, making demands for food and fuel greater than ever. This has led to habitat loss, climate change, overexploitation, pollution and invasive alien species. Biodiversity loss is responsible for destabilizing ecosystems because it weakens their natural cycles, reducing the ecosystem’s productivity. It has impacted both agricultural and pharmaceuticals industries due to their heavy dependence on the environment, resulting in a loss of profit and more importantly, an increased scarcity of food and medicine. Biodiversity loss is occurring at up to 1,000 times
On the Biodiversity Wikipedia, the desired information was easily accessed under ‘Threats’ that was further divided into sub-categories. Anyone is able to edit the articles, a clear disadvantage, yet the advantage is that one can view the changes made and view who made each change in addition to the information being highly up-to-date. Moreover, the two YouTube videos watched helped outline YouTube’s pros and cons. One of the videos was uploaded to a channel named Biointeractive, with many videos and subscribers, while an anonymous user uploaded the other. Anyone is allowed to upload a video and this can provide raw and unfiltered information, which can be beneficial as harsher truths can be exposed but there lies the danger of false information being presented to provide a ‘shock-factor’. The videos were merely factual yet these facts could have been exaggerated. The blog post examined, Businesses could benefit from protecting biodiversity, self-published in 2010, relies on the author’s opinion and is not validated hence the quality cannot be