What Is Biodiversity Really About? Hidden Connections That Shape Our Lives!

In this episode of Live Sustainably, Anastasia unpacks the true meaning of biodiversity—not just forests and endangered species, but the intricate connections between all forms of life on Earth.

From wild potatoes preserving food security to fungi on sloth fur inspiring new antibiotics, this episode reveals how biodiversity directly impacts our health, medicine, climate, and future.

This episode explores:
How food diversity protects us from hunger and malnutrition
Why biodiversity loss increases the risk of global disease
How kelp forests outperform land trees in storing carbon
The resilience—and fragility—of nature’s interconnected systems

Biodiversity is not just life on Earth—it is life in relationship. And we are part of it.

Chapters:
00:00 - 01:28 - Introduction
01:28 - 05:23 - Haute cuisine, wild potatoes, and food security
05:23 - 08:12 - Sloth, fungi and novel antibiotics
08:12 - 11:04 - Kelp and sequestration of greenhouse gases
11:04 - 13:10 - Biodiversity like never before
13:10 - 13:24 - The end

References to the data shared in the video:
👉 Earth.com, 2023. C. Sexton. "Sloths may hold a secret weapon against antibiotic resistance".
👉 Guardian, 2021 K. Latham. Biodiversity: "How biodiversity loss is jeopardising the drugs of the future".
👉 Harvard University, 2019. S. Hurlimann. "How Kelp Naturally Combats Global Climate Change".
👉 MDPI, 2023. CR. MacNair, CN. Tsai, Steven T. Rutherford, M-W Tan. "Returning to Nature for the Next Generation of Antimicrobial Therapeutics". Antibiotics 2023, 12(8), 1267.
👉 United Nations Foundation, 2023. MJ Altman. "Biodiversity Explained: Facts, Myths, and The Race to Protect it".
👉 NPR.org, 2012. E.Barclay. Public Health: "As Biodiversity Declines, Tropical Diseases Thrive".

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