Civilization’s Life-Support System: Biosphere Earth The BioIntegrity Podcast

A reading of The Value of Biosphere Earth, part 3: "Ecosystem Services" by researcher/author, Chris Searles. From brain formation to oxygen supply, Earth's other life is responsible for just about everything that makes our lives possible. (Scroll down for citations.) Earth's composition of life and living ecosystems is everything to us humans. "Ecosystem services" -- the academic term for Earth's literal, planetary life-support system services, are the products, conditions, bodies, functionalities, services, communities, other companions, and more we typically take for granted, which are generated by the Life before and around us today.
Earth’s global life-support system is composed of a continuous life-interaction of water-based/atmospheric/landscape/and subterranean micro and macro organisms. Please check out the prior two podcasts in this series for more info. Biosphere Earth provides for just about every aspect of human identity and existence. This series seeks to connect people of all backgrounds to a better understanding of what our life-support system is and how its integrity is our #1 economic and shared priority. This episode synopsizes what Earth's complex biosphere does for us. 
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Read The Value of Biosphere Earth, part 3: Ecosystem Services  
by Chris Searles, on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/VOBE3-ecoservicesRead Chris' essay on this topic. Visit our website for more: https://biointegrity.net/valueAbout Chris Searles
director, BioIntegrity.net / exec. editor, AllCreation.orgother notable research: The Systemic Climate Solution################
 
Citations Map of Earth’s vertebrate biodiversity concentrations on land.• Data: Jenkins, Pimm, Joppa. Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation. PNAS 110 (28) E2602-E2610; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302251110• Image: Globaia / ESO Supernova. Biodiversity on Earth. European Southern Observatory. https://supernova.eso.org/exhibition/images/0514_F_biodiversity_bearbeitet-CCfinal/ (Retrieved 2021)
1. “Ecosystem Services” is irrelevant to the average human being.• Thompson, et al. Ecosystem – What? Public Understanding and Trust in Conservation Science andEcosystem Services. Front. Commun., 1. (2016) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2016.00003/full
2. Some definitions of Ecosystem Services.• Intergovernmental Panel on Science Policy and Ecosystem Services. Core Glossary. IPBES. Retrieved10/7/2021. https://ipbes.net/glossary/ecosystem-services• Danley, Widmark. Evaluating conceptual definitions of ecosystem services and their implications.Ecological Economics 126, 132-138. (2016) https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800915300549• Antle, et al. Ecosystems and their goods and services. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AR52014: Climate Change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. (2014)https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/wg2TARchap5.pdf• Uncredited authors. Ecosystem services for human well-being. The Secretariat of the Convention onBiological Diversity. (2008) https://www.cbd.int/doc/bioday/2008/ibd-2008-factsheet-01-en.pdf• Uncredited authors. Ecosystems and their wellbeing, Chapter 02: Ecosystems and their services.Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (2005) http://millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.300.aspx.pdf
3. Ecosystem services keep humans alive and make possibility possible.• Daily, G., editor. Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems. Island Press. ISBN:1559634766. (1997) https://islandpress.org/books/natures-services
4. “Are these not of the living Earth?”• Orange, T. There There. Vintage. ISBN: O525520376. (2019) https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563403/there-there-by-tommy-orange
5. Ecosystems and their biodiversity have generated the platform for all known physical, emotional, mental, psychological, spiritual, conscious, and subconscious experiences for organisms.• European Commission. Ecos