Climate change means conservation ethics must change

Fort Worth Star Telegram: For decades environmentalists have been guided in their work by what became known as the "precautionary principle." This decision-making guide was first put forward in environmental terms by pioneering naturalist and biologist Aldo Leopold in his landmark 1940s essay "Round River." His focus was the complexity of the environment. "If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every......

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