Up until today I never even heard of the title “Ecosystem Services” before. Ecosystem Services are The product or functions that nature provides which are of great value to people Some of them include clean water and air, pollination, fish in the ocean, storm protection, ect… All of things are vital to our existence and help us everyday without our realizing it at all, and are often taken for granted.
In the world today everything’s worth is based on a dollar value, so nature really gets short handed by people. The problem is you can’t put a monetary value on nature, so it often gets left out of discussions and is never given credit for what it does and people end up not caring and it. Hurricane Katrina was a good example of what happens when you don’t realize what you’ve done till it’s too late; the absence of wet lands was a little piece that made the storm worse.
Personally this was a vey interesting thing to learn about and the dynamics that it includes. I received a better understanding of hurricane Katrina and part of why it was so bad, and I was given a different way to look at nature and its resources now.
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