Ecosystems...what do we really know?

Coming back from my intensive biology unit for my B Environmental Science, I really got to thinking about ecosystems. Because really, what do we know?

Well yes it's biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving (abiotic), physical components of the environment

with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight.

Ecosystems are incredibly diverse but also so delicate and fragile. I get really upset when big corporations want to build roads and friggin golf courses right through national parks and wetlands. They tell us that they will "rebuild and rejuvenate" these areas surrounding it, as if a giant bulldozer didn't come along and destroy half of it.

Due to science not having made as many discoveries as we would have hoped, unfortunately they can't "replicate" an ecosystem. It just can't be done.

So when you see a company (or even the government!), wantonly building a highway, protest the shit out of it, because they just have no idea the repercussions of destroying such biodiversity!