Aldo Leopold wrote “There is as yet no ethic dealing with man’s relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it,” in The Land Ethic, an excerpt from A Sand County Almanac. We have ethics in philosophical terms, however little is thought of extending it to ecological. Our community includes the soils, the waters, the plants, the animal, and the land. Most of the land takes on the characteristics of the people who have lived on it. If we were to extend our ethics to land it wouldn’t prevent the changes, the managing, or the use of the resources found, however, it would ensure the continued existence of all that lived. Wouldn’t you think everyone in the world would want to ensure life of our earth?
Leopold wrote, “The combined evidence of history and ecology seems to support one general deduction: the less violent the man-made changes, the greater the probability of successful readjustment in the pyramid.” As I look around the area I have lived for 12 years I see the changes that has been made to the land. There are new homes, apartments, stores, new roads, bridges and parking areas. All the development has taken our soils, waters, plants and animals and displaced them. Will the plants regrow when the buildings and cement are over the soil? Will animals have anything to eat while there is no grass around?
For people to make a conscience effort to preserve the land, it will preserve our future of the earth.
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