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Topic: Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Research Question:
how the expansion of chemical industries causes biodiversity and ecosystem loss.
IGCSE Global Perspectives 0457/02
[June 2024]
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INTRODUCTION
The individual report is about biodiversity and ecosystem loss. My research
question on this topic is how the expansion of chemical industries causes biodiversity
and ecosystem loss. The expansion of chemical industries is causing many problems
across the world at the local, national, and global scales. According to “J & J TAMEZ”
increasing in the number of chemical industries causes climate change, groundwater
and soil contamination, and waste management. This shows that many living creatures
are disappearing because of the straightening out of chemical industries across the
world. Again, from this source, the number of lives on the earth is vanishing
continuously, beside of this, according to “climatrade”, China, with more than 10,065
tons emission of carbon dioxide is the country with the most carbon dioxide emission in
the world because of the spreading of chemical industries in their territory. This shows
that many living creatures may disappear because of the spreading of chemical
industries in the world. Moreover, the spreading of chemical industries has its effect on
biodiversity at the local scale, and according to “eolss.com” the spreading of chemical
industries causes pollution of the soil and underground water, and this causes many
growing plants to don’t have enough nutrients within it this shows that many plant
creatures can be lost because of spreading of chemical industries, beside of this
according to “U-earth” Bangladesh is the country with a large amount of soil
contamination which+ is 76.9 µg/m³ the one reason for this can be poisonous gas
emission of chemical industries to the surrounding and this causes deprivation of
habitats. And my personal linkage with my topic is when I was twelve years old, and I
have been in one area, at that time I could see that when people cut so many trees to
build some chemical industries in that town to expand cities.
LOCAL ISSUES
Chemical industries have their influence on biodiversity and habitats on local and global
issues. “jjtamez” expressed an increase in the number of chemical industries around the
place, where habitats are found. Cause environmental issues which cause wastewater
pollution on the natural ponds and underground water and this makes many habitats not
have a pure and adequate source of water. Furthermore, as “jjtamez” described an
increase in the number of chemical industries around the communities also causes
pollution of the soil and underground water so that plant species cannot continue and
survive anymore.
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Global issues
Not only this but also the increase in the number of chemical industries has global
problems; some of these problems are expressed as a reason for the increase in global
temperature across the world as “jjtamez” try to describe, this article shows that a lot of
living creatures are vanishing because of some bad consequence come from climate
change. Moreover, according to “rwth-aaken” if plants and animals adapt to chemical
exposure, their resistance to some diseases will decrease. This shows that many plant
and animal habitat species may alter in the future, so many pre-existing habitats will be
lost because of this reason.
Global Causes and consequences
Concerning the article published in the “Living planet” report in 2022 which highlights
the issues in the past fifty years, 69% of wildlife or habitats are lost because of some
reason. We can mention so many causes for the reason why these habitats vanish
within this short period. However, the main reason for this loss of wild creatures is
humans actions, and we can mention one harsh action of human beings as a cause of
this disappearance of the wild lives which is polluting the environment by some pollutant
stations, and a world a lot of habitats are lost in the past 50 years as “living planet” try to
describe. Not only this but also the cause of the loss of many wild lives and plant
habitats has a negative impact or consequences on people on a global level. As
Britannica expressed, the cause of the loss of habitats, especially plant habitats, has
consequences: climate change associated with global warming. Furthermore, this
consequence of having many numbers of chemical industries associated with the cause
of habitat loss has other consequences according to “world wildlife” which highlights the
consequence of climate change causing the melting of glaciers. This impact turns back
to the thump of vanishing more numbers of plants’ habitats. Moreover, according to
“women’s voice” the cause use of fuels as feedstock for chemical products is the main
reason why chemical industries are responsible for to increment in global temperature.
Besides this, when the global temperature of the world becomes a lot of species will
disappear from our planet. And according to “ncbi” the loss of many uses and full plants
leads to not having enough quality medicine supply. And according to “fda” if medicine
or drug supply to one country gets shortage results those countries have great
manufacturing and quality problem of some productions coming from animals that use
these useful medicines prepared from plant habitats.
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LOCAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Concerning the article published in “Anthropogenic Chemicals as Underestimated
Drivers of Biodiversity Loss: Scientific and Societal Implications” on January 2, 2022,
highlights the issue in what way chemical industries have their negative contribution to
habitat loss and this contribution has come because of a large amount of carbon dioxide
is emitted and causes climate change and this will again cause destruction of habitats
and some other sources mentioned that there are a lot of problems and negative effects
on biodiversity and habitats caused by chemical industries. According to the article
published in women’s voices, chemical industries use fossil fuel as raw material and this
has its cause and consequence on an environmental scale, which is an emission of
greenhouse gasses, mostly carbon dioxide, as “the facts-CLIENT EARTH” tries to
describe consequently, the cause which is an emission of carbon dioxide will decrease
the amount of evaporation or unwanted waste liquid being out from the leaf stomata;
this consequence is on plant habitats as “GIS MODEL” try to mention. The second
cause of chemical industries on society is mentioned as economic, which increases or
has a direct impact on countries’ GDP or job opportunities “npa” this cause can have a
very significant problem or consequence on the biodiversity of the ecosystem life as
"Institutions and inequality interplay shapes the impact of economic growth on
biodiversity loss” described which highlights that increase in GDP which is caused by
having a lot of employee society in some places including chemical industries can
cause loss of biodiversity or ecosystem life. The third or the final cause and
consequence that will happen because of local societies and because of chemical
industries on habitats or ecosystem life is expressed by “pan Europe” as when there are
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a lot of chemical industries there will be the manufacturing of some agrochemical
products and this results which are contamination of groundwater with nitrate as
“science direct” expressed and this again results in the feeling of being sick to
animals(nausea), increment of a heart rhythm of animals and abdominal cramps to
these animal creatures as “Minnesota department of health try to describe.
Comparison of local and global causes and consequences
When I compare and contrast these two causes and consequences which are global
and local. When I start from the similarities both have health problems in the ecosystem
life and habitats. The reason for this similarity property between these two scales is that
according to the living planet report if the emission of chemicals increases the amount
of wastage going off from the leaf stomata will be declined, so plants can’t prepare their
food and they will rely on danger life. Similarly, the global scale has also a consequence
associated with the health of habitats to support this argument I used the source “world
wildlife” and this source tells us that if climate change and melting of glaciers take place
the animal and plant habitats, which live in some polar region places. And when we
contrast them, chemical industries may cause society to have job opportunities and
increase the country’s GDP and this results in a loss of biodiversity as nap explained
briefly. But locally according to pan Europe agrochemicals produced by chemical
industries can contaminate the ground and result in some plants to don’t growing up as
required. So, we can analyze at this point the local scale causes and results of habitat
loss socially, but the global one is economically vanishing the habitats. the final or last
similarity is that nevertheless, the range is different both in a factor of chemical industry
might cause the loss of habitats widely.
Source evaluation
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Through my investigation, I try to use some sources that are factual and reliable. When
we see the script National Institute of Health about “Anthro pyogenic chemicals” it tries
to make my evidence, ideas, and data reliable. This script is published by three authors
who are Colette vom Berg, Kristin Schirmer, and Ahmed Tlili all of the authors’ works
are in Aquatic Science and Technology, which is one of the indications to we have
reliable information. Also in this script, we can see that the publication date is very
recent which is on January 2, 2022. This also shows that our data is reliable. And the
type of information that has been published is private and free from the government.
The reference that I highlighted to support my idea is “chemical industries have their
negative contribution to habitat loss and this contribution has come because of a large
amount of carbon dioxide emission”. And the purpose of writing this article is to inform
some ideas about chemicals caused by chemical industries on habitats”. However,
there are some limitations to using this source one of which that is some data is not
supported by statistical information. My second source to support my argument with
data and evidence is published in “living planet” and it is published in 2022 which is very
recent data so our data is tend to be unswerving. The evidence that I take to support my
idea is “chemical industries have a global cause which quotes habitats can have the
global consequence which is climate change, and global warming this can affect the
society sketchily”. This argument can support my argument by showing how industry
chemicals affect the ecosystem globally. And the type of source is not mentioned in the
data. However, the weakness of this source is that any kind of author and author
background has not been mentioned. And the strength of this argument is that so much
information is displayed graphically and statistically so it will be easy to interpret the
given data and it also gives factual data. The sources I’ve used tend to be reliable
except for some of their limitations.
Course of action
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https://climatetrade.com,
https://www.eolss.net,
https://www.u-earth.eu ,
https://www.jjtamez.com ,
https://www.rwth-aachen.de,
https://www.worldwildlife.org
, https://womensvoices.org,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov,
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