Which of the following best illustrates the intrinsic value of an ecosystem? Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota provides jobs
for loggers Woodpeckers in the Black Hills eat mountain pine beetles that have been killing millions of acres of pine forests in the western U.S., costing millions of dollars in lost timber sales and creating an extreme fire hazard A wetland filters runoff and detoxifies water before it percolates into drinking water aquifers An estuary is often a stopover location for millions of migrating shorebirds that need to stop and fuel up on the invertebrates living in the mudflats. My professor's prairie provides flowers for her colony of honeybees to harvest pollen
An estuary is often a stopover location for millions of migrating shorebirds that need to stop and fuel up on the invertebrates living in the mudflats.
Ecosystems include all the organisms, their physical and chemical environment. The intrinsic value of the ecosystem is self-ascribed which means that its intrinsic value is conferred by its own desire to take its lived experience as an end in itself. An estuary establishes its intrinsic value in this example showing how it is utilized in the ecosystem.
In recent time, the aforementioned issues were replaced with
discrimination, slavery and genocide of many Native American. Slavery had been
one of the biggest problems in the United States that had rooted to racial discrimination
and segregation among the citizens of the country as well as it contributes to
genocide to many Native American families that were “civilized” by the current
culture.
