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Protect Nature AND Protect Livelihoods of Human

                         
               Wake up! We are sitting on our hands and melting!



After a little bit search about the human impacts on the nature, I realized that people causes a lot of damaging on the nature. However, if we can damage the world openly, so it means that we can conserve the world too. We as individuals on the earth should be aware of the fact that without nature (without functions of plants etc.), we cant live! So why do we stop to ruin it? At least every single individual can start to care about it just a little, then these little thoughts are going to combine and create a cleaner world than before which is so important for us.

On the other hand, livelihoods of people is a completely important issue. Building up schools, hospitals, houses... We need all of them in order to survive even though a lot of trees are cutting down. The main part is we should be able to keep the balance. People are building up shopping malls, stadiums just like crazy. So they are suffering the trees for the needs which we don't need that much, in other words, because of they don't know the limits, nature get hurts over and over again.

                             

             Protect the Nature  &   Protect the Livelihoods of People 

Measuring Biomass. And the biggest question is UNETHICAL OR NOT?

Its not important to say its ethical or not at first. If we really want to clarify this issue, well first we should ask ourselves that “what is biomass?”, “why do we need to measure it?” and “what are the advantages and disadvantages of it?” After getting the answers then we can bravely give our answer to this biggest question. Without contrasting the positive and negative parts we cant get the best answer.

What is Biomass?

Biomass is the total mass of organic matter. Organic matter consist of carbon compounds such as carbohydrates, lipids and protein. Biomass is measured as dry mass of organic matter of living organisms.

Why do we need to measure/ what are advantages of it?

Biomass is of interest for a number of reasons. It is the raw material of food, fiber, and fuelwood. It is important for soil, fire and water management.

1) Biomass used as a fuel reduces need for fossil fuels for the production of heat, steam, and electricity for residential, industrial and agricultural use.

2)Biomass is always available and can be produced as a renewable resource.

3)Biomass fuel from agriculture wastes maybe a secondary product that adds value to agricultural crop.

4)Growing Biomass crops produce oxygen and use up carbon dioxide.

5)The use of waste materials reduce landfill disposal and makes more space for everything else.

6)Carbon Dioxide which is released when Biomass fuel is burned, is taken in by plants.

7)Less money spent on foreign oil.

What about disadvantages?

1)Agricultural wastes will not be available if the basic crop is no longer grown.

2)Additional work is needed in areas such as harvesting methods.

3)Land used for energy crops maybe in demand for other purposes, such as faming, conservation, housing, resort or agricultural use.

4)Some Biomass conversion projects are from animal wastes and are relatively small and therefore are limited.

5)Research is needed to reduce the costs of production of Biomass based fuels.

6)Is in some cases is a major cause of pollution.

As we can see from the above, even though there are significant reasons for measuring the biomass, the negative causes that it gives to nature is just terrible. Using those destructive techniques, and destroying the plants for this is just openly causing the global warming, pollution, erosion and lot of damages to our world. So in my opinion, it is totally a unethical behavior. Now...

Dear Scientists,

I know in some ways its important to see and measure biomass of plants and animals. But bear this in mind, I dont care! WE dont care. Just find another way to make your scientific researches.

Sincerely,

a girl who cares the nature that she lives in.

CITATION

http://science134.tripod.com/id9.html

SL Biology ( Pearson Baccalaureate ) 

Was "father of modern taxonomy" racist?

First, its good to know what is racism and what makes someone racist, before deciding on this issue. As dictionary states “Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement,usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.” 

Carl Linnaeus simply divided Homo sapiens into four varieties as "Europæus albus" (white European), "Americanus rubescens" (red American), "Asiaticus fuscus" (brown Asian) and "Africanus niger" (black African). Also he gave them some qualities such as choleric to American, melancholic to Asiatic, phlegmatic to African and sanguine to European. However, Linnaeus divided Homo saphiens into groups by stereotyping them through his ideas and beliefs without abstracting. What makes him racist is these qualities that he gave those people and show how European people better than the others . He was born in Sweden, which locates in the Europe. Also he's Uppsala University educated. His decisions while subdividing the people is simply belonging to his roots. While Americans shown as choleric people, Europeans are fair and sanguine people who are governed by laws. The decision that he provided about people is not belonging to scientific analysis or certain informations. In other words, there are no real, certain evidences or supports which may prove Linnaeus's ideas.