This sort of thing is why I always am very quick to redirect folks doing physical geography/quantitative work when I’m talking about research ethics in Geography. Just because you’re not working directly with humans doesn’t mean you can’t be unethical.
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“‘Other geologists who came to do research took large amounts of rock and scarred and damaged the land,’ explains Tommy Palliser, a member of the Inuit community …. another … member … found rock collected from the site for sale on the internet for … $10,000. ‘We were pretty disgusted with this’”
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I say that when you think of the environment as having relationships with humans that are just as important as interpersonal ones, these things matter.