Perspective voyage · 1949
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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