ABSTRACT
There are several important implications of the ABH. The idea that ecosystems maximize biodiversity and organisms increase it implies we should value and preserve it. Any cause is a lost cause if we negatively impact biodiversity too much, because this will cause our extinction. Saving biodiversity alleviates many other problems, such as climate change, food production, and providing clean water. We must give preserving biodiversity the highest priority. Deep ecology and pragmatic environmentalism are in a complementary relationship, and both are related to biodiversity. The environmental crisis is an unintended scientific test of the ABH, greatly supporting it. The smallest organisms have the highest diversity. The most diverse taxa have the highest impact on the environment. Organisms and species do not exist in isolation and are connected to many other organisms, species, and their ecosystems. Coevolution is prominent in evolution. Symbiosis and commensalism are pervasive and greatly increase biodiversity. We need a paradigm shift to recognizing that life is the main biodiversity generator; ecosystems maximize biodiversity; and in natural conditions, all nonhuman species are ecosystem engineers that over sufficiently long time periods have a net positive effect on other species, their ecosystems, and biodiversity.
