Name: Geraldene Alegre Course/Year & Section: BSA 2B Chapter 4: STS and the Human Condition Let’s Apply The MS WORD FORMAT is as follows: Font TAHOMA, Font size 11, 1.5 SPACING, 1 INCH ALL MARGINS, PORTRAIT ORIENTATION with your COMPLETE NAME, COURSE, YEAR & SECTION and the ACTUAL DATE OF SUBMISSION (The date in sending with my e-mail address) on top of it. Come to with this output: Look for medicinal plants in your backyard and take a photo of each plant. Post them in your timeline with your own written story about the importance of biodiversity/plant as medicine. Each photo posted must have a scientific name, local name and uses. Choose two (2) questions and elaborately answer. A. What do you think is the most common human activity that greatly harms biodiversity? What alternative way/s can you suggest to avoid or limit the activity to prevent its harmful effects? The common human activity that greatly harms biodiversity is illegal logging of trees. It is the most common human activity, for me, because we are all aware that the population growth is totally increasing. Many give births to their young ones as the new member of today’s generation despite of the fact that there’s a scarce resources that we have to sustain human survival and other biodiversity. Therefore, along with the unstoppable growing number of people, many need to construct infrastructures to provide each families a shelter to dwell. So as the need of shelters increases many trees were cut and never been replaces afterwards. As a result, other species like birds in the forest becomes homeless thus, leads to the extinct of this species. Moreover, human being suffers from natural disasters such as soil erosion, flash floods and landslide as an effect leads to losses of many people’s lives. Therefore, to avoid this unwanted results we need not to tolerate illegal logging activity. Instead, as an alternative, architects and engineers may come to the idea of building infrastructures that will minimize deforestation from this illegal loggers. Lastly, as part of this environment we should start avoid harming our environment for such needs that becomes too much out of little things that we had and must always in still in our mind that we must protect our ecosystem, maintain its beauty and let it flourish for the future time. B. What are the three (3) small ways that you think would promote the safekeeping of our biodiversity? Explain. Due to our unlimited needs and growing population, we almost forgot how to wisely allocate our scarce resources. To promote safekeeping of our biodiversity, the three small ways that I think may help are the following: 1) Proper Waste Disposal,2) Reforestation, and 3)Gardening. It is somehow timely that mostly everyone today are staying at home, so it must be the time that our attention must be occupied by different chores at home to prevent anxiety brought by this pandemic. Therefore, I have realized that Gardening as one of my little way to help promoting the safe keeping of our biodiversity must take place. Aside from planting small plants it may be somehow our way also to plant trees that could give us fresh air and shelter for different bio species in our society. Also, by doing these things, why don’t we also practice proper waste disposal even just in our homes. Cleaning our backyard and putting some holes where we could properly segregate our garbage's serves as big help to lessen continuous destruction of our environment.
