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Economic Importance of
Plants
How or What makes the
Plants important?
Try and imagine a world without plants. It’s almost impossible to conceive. Although we
sometimes take them for granted, plants have made possible and shaped life on Earth while
making this a truly green planet.
Plants Plants are extremely important in
the lives of people throughout the world.
People depend upon plants to satisfy such basic HUMAN NEEDS as FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER, AND HEALTH CARE.
These needs are growing rapidly because of a growing world population, increasing incomes, and urbanization.
Plants also feed livestock that is then consumed itself.
FOOD Growing plants for food is just one of
the ways in which we utilize them in the modern world.
Everything we eat comes directly or indirectly from plants. Throughout human history, approximately 7,000 different plant species have been used as food by people.
CLOTHING The fiber industry depends heavily on
the products of cotton.
WATER Plants regulate the water cycle: they
help distribute and purify the planet's water. They also help move water from the soil to the atmosphere through a process called transpiration.
MEDICINE One-quarter of all prescription drugs
come directly from or derivatives of plants. Additionally, four out of five people around the world today rely on plants for primary health care.
HABITAT aside from human, plants make up the
backbone of all habitats. Other species of fish and wildlife also depend on plants for food and shelter.
CLIMATE Plants store carbon, and have helped
keep much of the carbon dioxide produced from the burning of fossil fuels out of the atmosphere.
AIR Oxygen is brought to you by plants, as
a byproduct of photosynthesis
Plants provide the raw materials for many TYPES OF PHARMACEUTICALS, as well as TOBACCO, COFFEE, ALCOHOL, AND OTHER DRUGS.
Plants have shaped the worldwe now live in and are ultimately
responsiblefor creating the conditions for human
life to exist on Earth in the first place.
When the earliest land plants appeared on Earth about 450 million years ago,
they drastically changed the Earth’s
atmosphere; reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and increasing the level of oxygen. That
change allowed other organisms to evolve and
flourish – some of them, our evolutionary ancestors.
Green plants are nature’s solar panels that have colonized much of
the planet. Through a powerful process called photosynthesis,
plants are capable of harnessing the vast energy radiating from the
Sun. They can then make that energy available to animals, which lack this amazing ability to gather energy from an extra-terrestrial source. The Sun is the ultimate source of all energy in our solar
system but we would have no way to access that energy without
plants.
Rather than taking them for granted, the role plants
play in our lives needs to be recalled, We
should know the importance of it and
of what it can do for us, We should Recall the Love and
care for one of the Wonderful creation of God;
Plants