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Question
"Biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides."
Describe any two broadly utilitarian arguments to justify the given statement.
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Solution
The broadly utilitarian argument described as biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides.
- Broadly utilitarian mainly explains the general and extensive uses of biological diversity, such as the production of oxygen, pollination, and aesthetic value that are not specific to any one species.
- 20 percent of the oxygen in the earths atmosphere is thought to be produced by photosynthesis in the rapidly disappearing Amazon forest.
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