For example when I am searching for insects and isopods I look under bark . For the next few days the insects are no were to be found. Another example is when I flip over logs and the insects scurry away. Just want to know your opinions.

[image] robotpie: It would also be worthwhile to explicitly define the scale difference between disturbing vs. destroying. For example one might consider peeling a bit of bark disturbing, because what was underneath can always find another piece of bark to hide under. And peeling a large amount …

I think reach people close to government or from them hunting endangered species in places were hunting is forbidden or building houses were you can’t cut forest or some “usual” stuff were they kill people in car accidents and never go to prison, is what affects the society the most, those people ca…

[image] jonhakim: The reality is that our individual integrity does have an impact on the power of our voice and our calls for systemic change. I agree with this and I think this is one of many reasons it’s important to conduct yourself with integrity, and also respectfully. Nowadays I see a…

[image] jonhakim: Even if one believes it is irrational to oppose minor habitat destruction because corporate habitat destruction is on a much larger scale, it’s still important both to our own psyche, the individual plants and animals we encounter, and the power of our personal witness that we …

I’m sorry, but Walmart doesn’t treat its workers as humans and doesn’t pay them what they deserve, so it’s a very bad corporation to have as an example. I’m sure if shops would stop selling bags people will bring them from their homes, but they don’t and they don’t even have paper bags, only plastic…

[image] marina_gorbunova: I’m sorry, but Walmart doesn’t treat its workers as humans and doesn’t pay them what they deserve, so it’s a very bad corporation to have as an example. I am sorry to say this, and it may be cynical, but we as people do not technically deserve anything in life. We th…

They do illegal things, so it’s more of not a phylosophical concept, but something we live with and what you can be physically punished for, unless you’re a part of corporation, of coarse. We sure can start a rhetorical discussion unless we happen to be in such situation, then it’ll be unhandy to sa…

that - shop at the supermarket - then unpack everything at the checkout - as a protest action? Doesn’t make any sense to me. You are the consumer, you BUY the product, disposing of the plastic packaging responsibly is YOUR task. Not the the poor cashier with a grumbling queue behind you. We choose…

I’ve been mulling over how I would add to what’s already been said here for a little while now. I have seen resource damage from careless hikers and probably some over enthusiastic botanists, but there really is a startling contrast between these effects and direct effects of development and land c…

[image] haemocyanin11: I am sorry to say this, and it may be cynical, but we as people do not technically deserve anything in life. We think in this way because that is how we are taught in school and by society as a whole. That is a philosophical question of whether a human being has intrins…

Do you feel that by exploring nature we are also killing it?

Nature Talk

yerbasanta December 8, 2020, 5:24am 81

If anyone is interested in further discussion of a code of ethics for iNaturalist and hasn’t already seen it, I started a discussion post here which is still active.

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Do you feel that by exploring nature we are also killing it?

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