Leopoldian Way

July 17, 2010

A ‘Leopoldian’ way would be a way in which land ethic existed. Leopold discusses the idea of ethics as being a way of guiding an individual’s relationship with the land. This relationship includes the soils, waters, plants, animals and collectivity that live upon the land. From the field trips and other different topics of this class I agree that we need a connection with land ethic. A land ethic will help conserve biotic member of the community, since we unfortunaelty choose something’s worth on economic value, something that leaving a piece a land alone would not have. All organisms and ecosystems are interconnected in some form or another. Even if just the smallest organism is eliminated, the entire ecosystems will we greatly affected. We need to consider nature into the picture before we decide to destroy a wonderful piece of land for a building.