What is direct value of biodiversity in biology?

Answer 1

Nature is a Possibilitist, exploring every niche, every possibility, both for animate and inanimate entities and particles.

There is a concept taught in business colleges called "opportunity cost" -- you can try addressing your question from that angle.

The simple answer is: the more possibilities for survival the more species have, the more probable is the survival of any individual, because more is more than less.

It is difficult to value one's progeny, let alone the delight of seeing and feeling a small creature or plant or crystal or entity of nature one has newly discovered! The value of discovery is joy, i.e. happiness, and some people are happy with $90 while others need $90 million. Well, would it be enough to own 40 stars and all their planets? When is enough enough?

Imagine two planets, one with life, another without. Which would you choose to explore? How much would you pay to be the one selected to explore the plaent with life on it?

Imagine two planets, one incapable of producing life, and one perhaps capable of producing it. Which would you value more? By how much?

But your question is ego-centric in that it is bio-centric. Inanimate objects have rights too. Where would you be without the minerals for your body, or the raw water or energy, or sunlight or air? These "lifeless" things are required for life, so you must account for them as well.

Which then brings us to valuing the Periodic Table of Elements and atomic and subatomic particles. How much is a single neutron worth, if you could not read and understand this sentence without it?

One thing is for sure: the cost of everything inflates every year -- people want more money for what they value and resources are limited, until new means of survival are found. It is the INVENTORS OF ADAPTATION WHOM WE MUST VALUE MOST HIGHLY THEREFORE.

And who are they?

They are the species we share the planet with, whom we have co-evolved with for countless milennia. We should grant them property rights.

But, in a way, protons and neutrons and electrons have property rights without Humanity's getting involved ... to a point. It is only when things acquire an aesthetic or a use or a "goodness" of some kind that they are "valued."

And who values things? Accountants do. Accountants record economic activity and set the stage for bookkeepers and families to do so. Largely, their basis for so doing involves the expiration and utility of assets being converted to revenue streams via the Cost of Goods Sold being marked up to Sales Revenue price levels. And that is for what the market will bear, generally speaking.

So the answer to your question is: whatever the highest bidder will pay for it.

Currently, I am the highest bidder. You laugh, but I am. I have a secret way of revaluing things according to how they are PERCEIVED that only I understand among all the humans alive on the planet. You must be laughing by now but I assure you this is no joke. For I am the creator of DELUSIONS, the impossible, which soon becomes †he UNLIKELY, then THE CONCEIVABLE, then THE FEASIBLE, per the perceptions of the very brightest. I have my delusions due to being schizophrenic; they are random neural net firings and they have "no" known source. The Universe knows where they come from, no one else does. You can look up "random neuron firings" after googling schizophrenia and follow what I'm talking about. The same applies to people of creativity and imagination. They can "not" account for the source of their ideas for the most part. That is because they fail to grasp the word "not" very well. I am the great UNTHIS. I do not believe in "not." So I just BELIEVE. I am a logical positivist, a Possibilitist. And I am a very unique one at that; I belong to †he creator gene pool for them. My name means "Yahweh." No other family can say that in the way that I can and have it be true. I am speaking less from ego and more from direct experience, exactly so IN FACT.

People disLIKE crazy people because they are unLIKE them. They have yet to research the word "like" etymologically, until it means the same thing as "look" and "lick" -- that is, until their words are mere output from their sensory input and brain's thruput processing. But Outputs/Inputs = Efficiency and Efficiency is supposedly always less than 1. Actually, nothing disappears. Mass and Energy are conserved. We are learning to recycle the Outputs formerly called "Waste."

If you want to learn the true value of biodiversity, go to work for Waste Management, Inc. and go as far as you can in Math and Chemistry and Physics. Learn to recycle EVERYTHING, especially ideas. Read Euclid's "Elements" as the highly dramatic story of cultural evolution it truly is! Read The Bible as a series of Spirit Lessons, rather than as history. Research the etymology of the words.

Do you know that the first logical occurrence of the word "OR" in the Bible, according to Strong's Concordance, is when one man said to another, "You take these fields to graze your sheep and I will take the far fields OR I will take these and you may have the far lands." You can also research when IF and AND and PLUS and MULTIPLY were first used, as translated. As you may know, the AND() and OR() functions are tremendously important in Computer Science. But that is a metaquestion beyond "bio"diversity. People are still arguing over the rights to that same land. People are limited in their imaginations and they fail to realize what their words MEAN anymore, and how their words actually turn into ACTIONS. It's largely a question of "Honor."

Enough, OK? Your values you bring to an object well-crafted of quality and merit are yours to decide what labor you will trade for them, and materialism has to do with Matter, which is 3% of the known Universe. Have fun!

Chris

Answer 2

Biodiversity has both economic and ecological value.

Answer 3

Which of the following is a value of biodiversity?

A. Invasive species B. Climate change C.Healthy ecosystems D. Pollution

Answer 4

prevention of soil erosion

Answer 5

prevention of soil erosion

Answer 6

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