Geography 1500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Overconsumption, Project Tiger, Tsetse Fly
17 Dec 2016
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Ecosystems are complex and creating a closed living system is difficult. Should spend efforts protecting the ecosystems we already have. Biological diversity: the variety of all forms of life, from genes to species, through to the broad scale of ecosystems, intrinsic value: organisms are valuable in their own right, regardless of their use to us. Red spotted frogs have their owns reasons for existing even though it has no use to humans: instrumental values: use and non use. Use value: organisms that provide us with needs and wants (medicine) Non use value: we benefit from biodiversity without using it up (aesthetic: lomborg perspective value: enjoying a nice sunset) Biodiversity has value we should quantify it. Instead of creating more and more protected areas, we should protect forests, wetlands, and coral reefs: escobar perspective. Political autonomy for indigenous people can be seen a biodiversity.
