Friday, April 5, 2013

WEEK 4


Read and discuss about the following information, based on your philosophical point of view
Aldo Leopold, wrote a famous essay ‘The Land Ethic’, found in his 1949 book, The Sand County Almana.  He carried forward a discussion about whether nature should be preserved only because of its economic and practical benefits for humans or because it provides value beyond merely supplying natural resources. He mentioned the songs of birds and the beauty of flowers as being part of nature’s bounty. He insisted that environmental ethics should focus on systems and not just on individual things. Our human dependence on nature cannot be understood without a deep ecological study of the interconnectedness of life.

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