A Sand County Almanac
Ethical connections made between humans and living and non-living components of nature. A quick choice, such as killing a wolf, can have much larger impacts than expected that can only be completely seen by a mountain. Wolves provide a balance to the deer population, without control the mountain can die from an unbalanced cycle. Too many deer will over graze and over populate, killing both the animal population and wiping out the natural biota. This affects my damage the mountain for many generations, depending on the regeneration cycle, if one ever occurs.
Ethical understanding combines the struggle for survival and social conduct, resulting in civil co-operation among a system. This applies for both ecological and philosophical views. The process begins with individual interaction, only to be advanced to social – individual interaction with democracy and “the golden rule”. Land ethics is difficult because it’s still viewed as property, without determined or defined obligations and/or responsibilities. Land ethics is the last step that in to be taken, and it’s vital for the protection and sustainability of the environment. The natural value of land is overlooked for its economic value. Modern views can be said to be “Outgrown” and substitutes are preferred, like synthetics. Education remains a problem, avoiding the direct topics and continuing to direct land as a economic problem, and overlooked the value of the natural biota. Economist have tried to convince that all land use is centered around economic determinates, or how money can be made.
Ethics are never written down, but are formed as an evolution in the minds of a thinking community. Social approbation controls the right from the wrong and as land ethics move from the individual to the community, the land will become more influenced as “land use” decisions on a larger, more eco-friendly scale.
Ethics are extremely important in the world today, especially with some many dangers to the environment. The idea of land conversion to public decisions will be a hard change. There is large amounts of money invest in land, and I think the approach of introducing responsibilities and regulation to land use will be the easiest, yet still challenging, change to instate. The trend of education throughout the topics this time around really highlights the power of knowledge, and why it’s hard to convince or explain impacts to people who don’t understand completely.
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