Biodiversity

1. The loss of biodiversity could have devastating consequences the discovery of new medicines and drugs, which could lead to many diseases and sicknesses going without a cure. To loss of species like pharmacopoeia rich cone snails would be a self destructive act.
2. If a certain area were to be seriously devastated by a loss of biodiversity, it could definitely effect more than one area. For example, if a large community relied on one biotic thing, and that one thing was destroyed, they would have to move to a new place with that resource. This could lead to an overpopulation in that certain place, and that could be a real problem.
3. Preserving biodiversity can enhance the life of people, because in some cases, a chain of events involving messing with the biodiversity, can come around full circle and lead to a loss of jobs. For example, when hunters started killing off whales, killer whales, that usually ate smaller whales, moved onto eating seals. As seals declined, whales moved onto otters. As otters decimated, otter pray such as urchins flourished. This killed off kelp forests where fish larvae grew, so the fish larvae became easy pickings for a variety of other sea life, and obviously, with less fish, fishermen's livelihoods were destroyed.