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Aldo Leopold

1949

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How does development change if soils, waters, plants, and animals are fellow members of a community rather than mere property?

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Story 1What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?

Leopold — From conqueror to member of the land community

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How does development change if soils, waters, plants, and animals are fellow members of a community rather than mere property?

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    Leopold's land ethic extends the boundary of the ethical community to soils, waters, plants, and animals—collectively, the land.

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    • Environmental Ethics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.1 Deep Ecology and early environmental ethics; Leopold’s land ethic

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    His holistic language emphasizes the integrity, stability, and beauty of biotic communities but does not supply a complete procedure for conflicts with individual animal welfare.

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    • Environmental Ethics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.1–§2.3, land ethic, holism, and objections

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Decisive moments in time

  1. 1949

    The posthumous A Sand County Almanac recasts humans as members, not conquerors, of the land community.

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