Nature may be resilient, but it can only absorb so much damage. People's only responsibility to nature is to make it serve their own best interests. Our environmental priorities are mixed up. We ought to devote more attention to environmental problems that affect humans and less to biodiversity loss. Human exploitation of natural resources, such as logging and fishing, has had a very damaging effect on global biodiversity.
Most local communities are too narrow-minded to support biodiversity conservation.
The loss of animal and plant species is one of the most serious problems in the world. Biodiversity loss is a bad thing for people because there are probably thousands of medicinal and other useful plants that are unknown to science that we might lose. Protecting species extinction should be our highest environmental priority, because once an animal or plant species becomes extinct, it is gone forever. The people who live in an area should have the most say in biodiversity conservation decisions affecting that area. We're doing a good job of biodiversity protection in my country, since we have so many natural areas designated for this purpose.