Importance of Plants
Miscellanea / / August 08, 2023
Plants and their ecological value: they are necessary for world balance.- Plants are living beings of our world that, like all other living beings, they develop the life process in known stages: they are born, they grow, they reproduce and die. Plants, or as they are also called, Flora, are distinguished from other living beings, Fauna, by the fact that They are inanimate, which means that they do not move or are capable of moving over great distances except when grow up.
Together with animals and biochemical organisms, fungi and bacteria, they make up, in interdependence with others, the multiple ecosystems of the Planet Earth. And thus, consequently, the sustainability of the rest, and even of the planet itself, depends on its balance and its existence. For this reason, in the first place, plants are important and necessary, since, as if it were a great puzzle, they are one of the essential pieces that sustain and configure our planet.
The importance of plants and vegetables on the planet is directly related to their functions
In this way, the ecological value of plants is essential, since they fulfill basic functions without which the rest of the living beings could not reproduce correctly. Regarding the planet's atmosphere, plants serve as a filter for environmental pollution, regulate temperature, generate oxygen, and therefore reduce global warming. For the earth's crust, they are worth as support and are natural fertilizers for the soil. And, jointly, for the rest of the living beings they are a primary part of the food chain.
In addition to the ecological value that they have in themselves, plants make up a part of the set of biological resources available and of potential use for human societies. In this sense, the socioeconomic value that plants have for human beings should be highlighted, since they we can extract from them numerous products such as raw materials, food, or organic substances and medicinal. Thus, it is essential to remember the neolithic revolution, the one in which the human being was able to domesticate the wild seeds that he used to consume before as a predator and began to grow his own food, adapting it to his needs. Plants and vegetables have since become the main food supply for humans.
Through plants we can obtain, from the early ages of humanity, the wood that is used for different applications, such as paper manufacturing, furniture manufacturing, or the production of material for construction. Likewise, plants are a primary source of food, such as fruits, vegetables, or vegetables, for all animals, including humans. And, in turn, we must highlight the use of plants as medicinal remedies of plant origin, which alleviate pain, or even lead to the cure of numerous diseases.
Plants as a central element of our human life and their respective care
Above we detailed the basic values that plants provide us, but we must not underestimate the aesthetic values that they provide us, since their decorative and recreational function has been shown to improve the quality of life of beings humans. Thanks to plants, we are surrounded by natural spaces that offer us beneficial places where we can inhabit or enjoy our free time, and, ultimately, its existence gives us pleasure for the senses.
It is for all this that it is significant to learn and transmit the correct care of plants and all plant organisms from the simplest to the most complex since they are the ones that transform planet Earth into a livable space for thousands of species animals.
At present, and many centuries ago, the human being has carried out tasks of destruction of the flora from the felling indiscriminate destruction of trees and forests and this has been generating serious consequences in the ecosystem, what we know today as «climate change» that transforms temperatures, land and soil, dries up watercourses, generates unstoppable flooding or eternal droughts, implies an increase in pollution in urbanized areas where there are almost no green spaces, etc
All these problems have been observed for a long time and only in recent years have there been actions to urge the awareness of the human being about the care of the environment, the vegetables and plants that compose it as well as the countless animal species.
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