land ethic
Ecological moral framework
A land ethic is a philosophy holding that humans have moral obligations not just to other people but to the natural environment—soil, water, plants, and animals.
The concept, developed by conservationist Aldo Leopold, treats ecosystems as communities deserving ethical consideration: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity of the biotic community.
The land ethic challenges purely economic views of nature as resource.
- stewardshipResponsible care of entrusted things
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
- soilGround matter for planting
watershed · belonging · reverence · husbandry · prairie · restoration · native prairie · interconnection · sustainability · wild · timber · erosion · habitat · biodiversity · obligation · kinship · sacred · holistic
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- environmentalismecology, conservationism, recycling bins, campaigner, environmentalism
- nature writingnature writing, Walden, nature poems, wilderness, nature journal
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
- sustainabilityreduce, reuse, recycle, sustainable yield, recycling programs
land ethicmanifest destiny
Obvious, inescapable fate
resource exploitation · instrumentalism · industrial agriculture
land ethicanti-environmentalism
Opposition to ecological protection
reductionism · industrial agriculture · factory farming · land speculation · urban sprawl
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