Protecting Nature or Protecting the Livelihoods of People?

These days, pollution based on human activities have become a thread for earths' existence. Since the industrial revolution people have started to use resources blindly, acted carelessly and polluted earth more and more. Of course humans have needs that they have to do to continue their life (like farming, cutting down trees for wood, building new hospitals, schools, etc.), however they should be responsible enough to conserve, recycle things and protect natural areas as much as they can, or else they are going to leave a horrible world to their children. Humans should act even more wisely/consciously, because serious changes (people weren't aware of these changes earlier) are occuring on earth (such as climate changes) which are causing global warming. Researches show that these changes are mostly caused because of human activities. Humans are disturbing the natural balance on earth, and they have no right for behaving in such a way, they're not only destroying their future but they are also destroying the other living organisms, future as well. People should have precautionary principles, and act more sensible, it is important that each individual starts to do what they have to do in order to protect the nature!

Is it unethical to cut down trees to measure biomass?

In the earlier times (like approximately 100 years ago) scientists used to kill animals and dry them in order to measure their biomass, however as the time passed humans became more sensitive/protective of animals and animal rights. So nowadays it isn't acceptable to kill animals to measure their biomass, but still scientists are cutting down trees to measure their biomass. Trees are also living organisms, just because they are fixed/stationary doesn't give the right for scientists to kill them, so I believe this is an unethical thing to do. They should find some other way to measure their biomass, there should be a different solution, plus cutting down trees also disturbs the natural order on earth, trees (producers) are vital for consumers since consumers depend on them. Things on earth are rapidly changing and globalization is one of the thing which affect this change the most, the understanding of ethics are also changing with the changing society and their changing ideologies. Hopefully soon enough people would realize that cutting down trees isn't any different than killing animals, people should be aware of the deficiencies this act might cause and people should be informed about the importance of trees in our lives.

Was Linnaeus a racist?

Carl Linnaneus