Well, biodiversity is the buzzword these days. The term is a combination of two components, the prefix 'bio' and the base word 'diversity' which comes from the adjective 'diverse'. It means a complete, total life cycle.
Now, if we really want to understand the concept in some detail, we would have to go back to our school days. Remember we had to study this notion of the food chain? Well, when it concerns biodiversity, it is more of the togetherness, of 'the unity in variety' 'idea' of life.
Biodiversity includes a co-existence of an eco-system where a variety of many varied types of animals and plants live together to form a good and healthy system. It includes all sorts of life forms; flora, fauna, fungi, micro-organisms like bacteria, and so on.
This ecosystem of genetically and species wise different forms of life has yet another axis to its existence. It includes a particular environmental context. In other words, the desert biodiversity is drastically different from the tall grass prairie ecosystem.
For the existence of the earth itself, we require all these bubbles of life. In a way, this unique interaction of varied species in a given context can be an apt metaphor for a society, a nation with reference to a particular historical, socio-eco-psycho-political epoch.
Interesting concept, in brief! I suppose, it can best be summarized as the singular ethical principle, "live and let live" so that together all survive and flourish!
Pratima@ "Remember," asserted Alexander, the Great, "on the conduct of each depends the fate of all"!
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