Natural Products and Climate Change

https://doi.org/10.26538/tjnpr/v1i2.1

Abstract

Perhaps the greatest challenge facing humankind in the generations to come are the issues related to climate change. Some
projections suggest that over the next century the world could see a loss of 50 % of our species diversity. If these projections are indeed accurate the repercussions of a mass extinction event of this magnitude will alter life on the planet for millions of years to come. Among the many aspects of life impacted would be our ability to address the need for new chemical entities for the control of emerging and resistant infectious diseases and cancer. Some estimate suggest that the Earth has become home to an estimated 9 million species, each with an ecosystem of its own harboring dozens of culturable - and hundreds of currently unculturable - microorganisms.