Assertion: biodiversity | /r/HasProperty | essential
Facets:
value: for human well-being
type: PURPOSE
value: for the benefits
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Read the story Biodiversity is essential to food and agriculture Biodiversity for food and agriculture is indispensable to food security and sustainable development.
text: Biodiversity is essential for the benefits the ecosystems can provide to humans and hence for human well-being.
text: By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the long-term survival of life on earth, it can be argued that cultural diversity may be vital for the long-term survival of humanity; and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to humankind as the conservation of species and ecosystems is to life in general.