Although this article is from 2018, it contains relevant information and provides explanations that anyone can understand. For example:
"For many people living in towns and cities, wildlife is often something you watch on television. But the reality is that the air you breathe, the water you drink and the food you eat all ultimately rely on biodiversity. Some examples are obvious: without plants there would be no oxygen and without bees to pollinate there would be no fruit or nuts.
Others are less obvious – coral reefs and mangrove swamps provide invaluable protection from cyclones and tsunamis for those living on coasts, while trees can absorb air pollution in urban areas.
Others appear bizarre – tropical tortoises and spider monkeys seemingly have little to do with maintaining a stable climate. But the dense, hardwood trees that are most effective in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere rely on their seeds being dispersed by these large fruit-eaters.
When scientists explore each ecosystem, they find countless such interactions, all honed by millions of years of evolution. If undamaged, this produces a finely balanced, healthy system which contributes to a healthy sustainable planet.
The sheer richness of biodiversity also has human benefits. Many new medicines are harvested from nature, such as a fungi that grows on the fur of sloths and can fight cancer. Wild varieties of domesticated animals and crops are also crucial as some will have already solved the challenge of, for example, coping with drought or salty soils."
As usual, the solutions that are proposed in this type of article are always raised within the framework of the current socioeconomic system. It remains TZM’s task to show that these solutions are insufficient because they do not deal with the roots of the problems.
I believe roots of problems are miseducated children. Parents should have more freedom to teach them things themselfs. And schools should be less hard on the mind and more directed into gardening, culture, philosophy sport and creativity. A bit like during the stoicism times around rome…
And who would educate those parents? This post is about what scientific knowledge tells us about biodiversity. Science education is precisely something that has generally always been lacking in the basic education provided in most countries. Parents cannot teach that knowledge that they did not obtain. In addition, the vast majority of adults have less and less time to spend with their children.
To change this reality, it is easier to educate the youngest and for them to transmit this new way of seeing the world to those who are already more difficult to change.