Aldo Leopold's The Land Ethic

Aldo Leopold is the author of the “The Land Ethic”. In this essay Aldo Leopold wrote his views about “the ethical sequence, substitutes for a Land Ethic, etc. First of all, Aldo defined the meaning of the ethics by how it is related to us and to our world. From the beginning to the end of his essay, I understood one most important point that he wants people to understand and see. He is telling us that we have to protect our world, we should treated our world as we would treat ourselves. Aldo Leopold gives us really good information in each of his topic. I really liked the land pyramid part where he explains to us that everything in our planet is connected to each other. The examples he give to us is that everything is starts with soil then trees and other things grow from soil then insect feed on trees and all other bird feeds on insects and so on. But what happened at the end, when trees, animal, people die. …show more content…
I think people start to care maybe little more about our world than they were before. I and my family are doing recycling for example. I think there are more than just me who is doing recycling to keep this planet clean. I guess people start to realize how our world would become if they continue destroying it. In my last semester I took humanities class and I have done one project that also helped me to realize how it is important to recycle, how it is important to care about our land. Also, after reading about the land ethic it is also give me more information of how we should care about nature instead of killing it.
Yes, as a people we should extending a community’s sensibilities to all members of the community, nonhuman and human. But do people do that? Some of them don’t, most of the people when they are going to park with their family they are not cleaning after themselves. We all should try to reduce our carbon footprint. So living and nonliving things have a have piece of community, piece of