The Land Ethic

Question 1

Biotic Pyramid

Answer 1

“Food Chain” Pyramid that symbolized the need for animals and organisms on the bottom of the pyramid

Question 2

What everyone thinks of land as

Answer 2

A place to produce commodities and create business

“We should look at surrounding natural world as part of our community”

Question 3

What Aldo Leopold believed Land Ethic was about

Answer 3

Respecting the empty land as part of our community

Question 4

What did Aldo Leopold do in his essays?

Answer 4

Defined Rights and Wrongs
Assigned Obligations
Called for Sacrifices
Changed the current philosophy of the value of land

Question 5

What did Leopold argue?

Answer 5

There is an intrinsic worth in natural systems that we should love

Question 6

Biotic Community

Answer 6

Natural objects should be used as a resource managed for human benefit.
Legit as longs as the community is respected.

Question 7

Normative implications of Leopold’s Holism

Answer 7

Preservation of life forms

Constrained human interference into the ecosystem

Question 8

Holism

Answer 8

Belief that all of the individual parts of the whole cannot be properly understood out of the context of the whole.

Question 9

Merits of the Land Ethic

Answer 9

decision process for most environmental and ecological issues
Avoids counter intuitive conclusions that burden individualistic approaches
Not Anthropocentric

Question 10

Anthropocentrism

Answer 10

Belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet