Editing Criticisms of globalization (section)

=== Decreased Biodiversity ===
The [[Biodiversity loss|decrease in biodiversity]] worldwide is an effect of human activity; human impact on ecosystems can be measured by biological diversity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lovejoy |first=Thomas E. |title=Biodiversity and Globalization |url=https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/biodiversity-and-globalization/ |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=OpenMind |language=en-US}}</ref> Harmful effects from globalization are visible from reduced genetic diversity in agriculture from the loss of crop varieties and livestock breeds, loss of biological species, increase of "exotic species" which live outside their natural geographic range, pollution in Earth's natural elements such as air, water, soil, rapid climate change, exhaustion of resources, and social or spiritual disruption.<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal |last=Ehrenfeld |first=D. |date=2003 |title=Globalisation: Effects on Biodiversity, Environment and Society |journal=Conservation and Society |s2cid=153283696 |language=en}}</ref>

According to David Ehrenfeld, agricultural effects have been documented for all food plants from vegetables, grains, and tree tops. Since 1970, over a thousand independent seed companies have been purchased by pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and other transnational corporations.<ref name=":32" /> As transnationals drop all but the profitable seed varieties there is a significant loss of germ plasm.<ref name=":32" /> The Garden Seed Inventory has listed all commercially available, non-hybrid vegetable varieties in the United States and Canada, and shows that beet roots, cabbage, and broccoli will diminish as a result of globalization faster than per capita income increases.<ref name=":32" />

Loss of domestic livestock including the ever-diminishing Haiti Creole Pigs also demonstrates the pressures of globalization. They were nearly killed off due to a disease control effort to "integrate Haiti into the hemispheric economy."<ref name=":32" /> There were efforts to try replacing the pigs with those from Iowa from the United States, but the costly project was a failure since the pigs needs could not be met, leading to Haiti suffering a US$600 million loss.<ref name=":32" />