Question
Why should biodiversity be conserved? Explain giving three reasons.
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Answer
Biodiversity should be conserved for the following reasons:
- The broadly utilitarian argument says that biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides.
- The narrow utilitarian argument says that humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature and products of medicinal importance.
- The ethical argument for conserving biodiversity relates to what we owe to millions of plant, animal and microbe species with whom we share this planet.
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