What is Life? 生物多様性COP10会議（Biodiversity COP10）

皆様お早うございます。本日の写真は私の第２の故郷の一枚です。

Good morning everyone. How are you today? It's cloudy and little cool. Today's photo is my second country. I stayed at there for nine years when I was young.

さて、現在名古屋で生物多様性会議COP10が開かれています。COP10とはConference of the Partiesの略で、国際条約を結んだ国が集まる会議のことだそうです。今回の会議のテーマは「遺伝資源へのアクセスと利益配分」だそうです。簡単に言うと、「薬」を作る先進国と、その「材料となる自然」をもつ途上国との間のお金の話のようです。

As you may know, the COP10 (Conference of the Parties) is running at Nagoya. The main theme of the meeting is distribution of gain from all of organisms between rich countries and poor countries in the planet, although the title is Biological Diversity.

そもそも生物多様性とは何でしょうか？生き物は人に利用されるものなのでしょうか？確かに薬の材料になる不思議な物質は世界にたくさんあります。その代表例がこの前ご説明した抗生物質です。

All of you should think about "what is biological diversity?" There are numerous species in the planet. And they contain various materials, for example proteins, nucleotides, lipids, or other specific materials produced by their body. Most famous material is antibiotics as described before before. Should they be utilized for us? They are Life!! And you also!

私はかねてからヒトは特別な存在ではない、単なる生き物の一種だと言ってきました。ではなぜ、ヒト以外の生き物はヒトのために「命を使われる」のでしょうか。そもそも「多様性」とはなんでしょうか？何故今、クマさんが殺されているのでしょうか？かわいそうなクマさん。彼あるいは彼女にも家族がいたはずです。生物多様性をお金で論じる前に、やるべきことがやまほど有るのだと私は信じます。

From the first of "What is Life?", I am showing my opinion that We are not special, We are a member of Life. Why can we use Life of other species? Who did permit the utilization of Life? What is Biological Diversity? Why are pretty bears killed in Japan now? They are member of their family? He or her has friends. Why? We have expanded our life area with killing other species in hundreds of years. I believe that we have to finish many things around us before discussing about Biological Diversity = Money Distribution. It is very simple and also easy.

結論

（１）生物多様性はお金の分配

（２）何故殺していいのか？

（３）クマさんはなぜ殺すのか？

Conclusion

(1) The biological diversity is distribution of money in COP10.

(2) Why can we kill other species?

(3) Why should we kill pretty bears?

もしご意見がございましたら"What is Life?"のレポートとして提出して下さい。

If you have any opinion against this article and all of What is Life?, please send me an e-mail as your report of "What is Life?". It will be opened on this class, if your report is good. Come on! Challenge (^^;).

本日の講義は以上です。最後に、出欠をとります。以下のバナーをクリックしたことで「出席」と認めます。

Today's class is finished. Have a nice day. Click the button at the bottom of this What is Life?, if you are a student of this class. 

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