Introduction

• What is ENVIRONMENT!? 

  Well ! wikipedia classifies it as biophysical environment,environment series , social environment, nature environment ....... the list never ends .

       

But, carefully observe these classifications do you think all of these are inter-related ?

Do all of these types of environment ! surround you !?? Yes ! they do. Thus , ENVIRONMENT is each and every thing, let it be biotic or abiotic , living or non- living that surrounds you and has its very own important role to play .  Environment is our life-support system 

   

Because the environment is our life-support system, it's impossible to truly estimate its value (it's priceless). However, economists and environmental scientists have estimated in dollars what it would cost us to accomplish the services nature provides. Using multiple databases, they estimate that nature provides $33 trillion dollars worth of services every year—that's nearly twice the annual Gross National Product or GNP of all the countries in the world combined. 

        

Our life-support system's health is maintained by all the species that make-up the biosphere—from the smallest to the largest (our biodiversity).

 Biodiversity provides problem-solving raw materials for shelter and useful products, creates medicines, and allows us to pollinate and maintain healthy crops from being infested with harmful insects and diseases (without the need or hazards of chemicals or genetic engineering, which kill beneficial insects, additional wildlife, and plants). Although tropical forests contain some of the highest concentration of biodiversity on the planet, we destructively log more than 10 million acres of these forests each year (that’s approximately the size of a football field every 4 seconds)(0_0) and efforts to promote sustainable forestry are largely failing .  !

The National Geographic Society writes:

    

The fragile balance of plants and animals that share the Earth took millions of years to develop. Some life-forms have persisted in nearly their original state, surviving episodes of mass extinction. Some, like ourselves, are relative newcomers. The ones that have perished will not return. Neither will the thousands of species that are disappearing each year due in large part to such human influences as habitat destruction, introduction of invasive species, and over harvesting. If we continue reducing Earth’s biodiversity at this rate, the consequences will be profound. The web of life connects the smallest bacterium to the giant redwood and the whale. When we put that web in peril, we become agents of calamity It is thus our responsibility and duty to preserve the environment. 

So how to conserve environment, does the nature have any value . If yes how much can that be ?? 

The video below can give you an idea.