Group 4 STS Performance No.4

Biodiversity and the Health
Society
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS: SCIENCE,
HEALTH AND POLITICS.
BIODIVERSITY AND THE HEALTHY SOCIETY
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS: Science, Health and
Politics.
 People depend on biodiversity in their daily lives, in ways that are not always apparent or
appreciated.
 Political institutions are relevant for biodiversity conservation since the national
management of biodiversity can be understood as a case of decision-making in the
political system.
 Significant medical and pharmacological discoveries are made through a greater
understanding of the earth's biodiversity.
BIODIVERSITY AND THE HEALTHY SOCIETY
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS: Science, Health and
Politics.
 Biodiversity is the most complex feature of our planet and it is the most vital. Biodiversity
today is the fruit of billion of years of evolution, mold by natural processes and increasing
by the influence of human. The source of our food, make oxygen, clean our water, control
disease and give us medicine. It also supports economic opportunities, and leisure
activities that contribute to overall well being. The web of life has a important role to
balance our biodiversity but through decades its obviously that it seems not so good as
before. Our environment is changing the way we live on our planet now affect what it will
be like in the future. Many of our natural resources will be in short supply in the future if
we did not do something for it now. Conversation must needed through the help of the
institutions and have a sustainable lifestyle.
Interrelatedness of Society, Environment and
Health.
 First of all, let’s define Society, Environment and Health.

 Society is a group of individual that has a persistent social interaction or a large social
group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political
authority and dominant cultural expectations.
 Environment is a Natural World or Surroundings in a which a person, animal or plant
lives or operates.
 Health is a state of complete Physical, Mental and Social Well Being. According to
WHO, Physical is about the body. Mental is about how people think and feel. Social talks
about how people live with other people.
Health.
 Environment as the term itself indicates is anything that surrounds or environs us.
Environment in this sense is made of all those things which though distinct from us affect
our life or activity in some way. It consists of all surroundings and influences, whatsoever
that are present whenever an event occurs.
 The physical environment consists of the geographical, the climatic and the controlled
geographical environment. The biological environment includes the plant and animals
found all round man. The social environment consists of three kinds of environments—
economic, cultural and psycho-social environments. The supra-social environment
consists of the notions regarding God or supernatural power.
Health.
 For some people environment generally means nature. The environment is the
surroundings in which a living being takes birth and evolves according to changes that
happen from time to time. It is said that the environmental challenges, changes, and
makes human beings adapt to the state of the environment they live in. Thus,
Environment visibly affects the humans living on it in many direct or indirect ways. In
some or the other way, everything is connected.
Health.
 Health is determined by several factors including genetic inheritance, personal behaviors,

access to quality health care, and the general external environment (such as the quality of
air, water, and housing conditions.
 Environment sometime influence the health and the society just like for example people
lack of foods in their environment or places that they are in so the impact is that they can
starve and get diseases that will affect their health. This includes the society if you are in a
good environment then there is no problem in the community to where are they going to
collect or get foods.
Health.
 The Society, environment and health are related to each other because without one
another, they wouldn’t be able to function normally.
 Imagine a Society and Health without Environment
 Imagine a Society and Environment without Health
 And most importantly, Imagine Environment and Health without Society,
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WHAT IS GMO?
”
What is GMO?
 GMO means Genetically Modified Organism and it is any organism whose genetic
material has been artificially manipulated in laboratory using genetic engineering
techniques.
What is the connection of Biodiversity to
GMO?
 Biodiversity is connected to GMO. GMO aims to address issues regarding food , food
security, agriculture, drug production and nutrition. GMO has a helpful tool especially to
the agriculture it increased crop yields, reduced costs for food or drug production, reduced
need for pesticides, enhanced nutrient composition and food quality, resistance to pests
and disease, greater food security, and medical benefits to the world's growing population.
Ethics and implications of GMOs and
potential future impact.
 Developments in the genetic modification (GM) of foods and crops has resulted in a raft
of controversies. Ethics can help here. While science determines whether we can safely
modify the genetic makeup of certain organisms, ethics asks whether we should.
 There are also concerns about the moral status of the organism itself. This position
depends on arguments that nature has dignity and interests beyond those of its human
inhabitants. Such arguments are not readily accepted due to their metaphysical or
theological overtones and dependence on essentialist idea of nature.
Ethics and implications of GMOs and
potential future impact.
 While critics maintain that long-term health effects are uncertain, they contend that even
if GM foods are safe to eat other harmful consequences should be considered, such as the
impact of patenting laws on farmers and research integrity, or the risk of GM crops
contaminating other crops or escaping into the wild.
 It is unlikely these issues will be resolved any time soon – and likely that new ones will
be added – but one area that can be worked on is discourse ethics.
 Until productive discourse is established, barriers between opposing views will only
strengthen.
Benefits of GMO:
 Higher efficiency in farming

 Increase in harvest
 Control in Fertility
 Increase in food processing
 Improvement of desirable characteristics
 Nutritional and pharmaceutical enhancement
Risk of GMO
 Since Genetic modification produces genetically modified animals, plants and organisms.
If they are introduced into the environment they can affect biodiversity.
 The debate about GMO has been happened for the past decades the ethical concerns have
been raised about GM crops: potential harm to human health; potential damage to the
environment; negative impact on traditional farming practice; excessive corporate
dominance; and the 'unnaturalness' of the technology.
Potential implications of GMO
 LESS WATER AND SUNLIGHT, GROW MORE FASTER AND HARVEST MUCH
QUICKER AND CROPS CAN BE GROWN AS PRACTICALLY IN THE WORLD.
 THE IMPLICATIONS OF GMOs IS THE GENETIC MODIFICATION PRODUCES
GENETICALLY ANIMALS, PLANTS AND ORGANISM ALSO IF THEY'RE
INTRODUCED THE ENVIRONMENT THEY CAN BE AFFECT TO THE
BIODIVERSITY.

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Biodiversity and the Health

 First of all, let’s define Society, Environment and Health.

 Health is determined by several factors including genetic inheritance, personal behaviors,

 Higher efficiency in farming

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