Some people say that the main environmental problem of our times is the loss of particular species of plants and animals. Others say that there are more important environmental problems. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
There is a debate over the priority among environmental problems in our world. In my opinion, decreasing diversity of plants and animal cannot be the most important problem beyond global warming issues.
It makes sense that keeping biodiversity is important. By keeping as many as species as we can, we can fulfill our moral duty as the most dominant animal on earth that should take care about other animals and plants in our planet. Adding to that, biodiversity strengthens the sustainability of entire species on earth by being useful to each other in various ways. For example, if we rely on a single species of food source, we can be wiped out with in second if some epidemic disease crushes our sole food source.
However, beyond above noted biodiversity, global warming is the most serious challenge that we face now. It affects our world in direct and indirect ways. In direct ways, it damaged our habitats. Increased sea level due to global warming has already impacted big cities. For example, Indonesia considers changing its capital to avoid erosion, and some islands in the Pacific area will be unmanned in the near future. For indirect ways, it gives bad effect on our health. The global warming forces us to use more energy to cool our cities in the summer season. Accordingly, humans are seeking more power source by damaging environment which results additional environmental problems like increased CO2 level due to emissions in generators around the world. Consequently, the summers on earth is becoming hotter and causing deaths and health problems to us.
To conclude, biodiversity is one of serious problems in our environment. However, global warming is the biggest issues that we should deal with first to safeguard our living itself.