Keep Diversity Alive

Its just one of those days, where I sit down to write and just continuously draw blanks. So i was flipping through the syllabus and saw a couple questions from a week or two ago, the reading questions running down the side of the page. These questions are pretty simply asked but evoked more thought than just about anything else today, so I am going to answer one to the best of my ability.

The question is, "Explain whether you think genetic engineering enhances or diminishes biodiversity?"

I say that genetic engineering diminishes biodiversity, this is because its like putting survival of the fittest on fast forward. As far as i can tell, genetic engineering is taking all the qualities (for example) of the plant species that you want and enhancing them and sometimes also removing the characteristics that are not desired. Ultimately, you skip the natural reproduction stage, creating an organism that is designed the way we see fit and taking it out of mother natures hands.
Finally you end up with a species that blooms early, flowers later and survives colder weather, than you take that one seed and reproduce it a million times and plant an entire field of the same plant, genetic copies of each other, same as the one in the row to the right and to the left. These plants are so similar to one another even rite down to the genetic make up, this is the opposite of biodiversity.
There is nothing diverse about this at all, these plants would not even continue to grow this way if humans were not around to continue to plant them, at this point they are ridiculously unnatural. Biodiversity is there to fill in the gaps, when one species climate changes only the one that can stand the heat, or most times the opposite, will stick around and continue to survive on this planet, this is why we need the differences, if everything were the same we would all have the same weaknesses as well. I say keep the diversity alive and well.