Environmental Ethics

The Ethical Basis for Ecosystem Management Andrew J. Green Ecosystem Management: The Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our thinking of rights and responsibilities. I believe we must incorporate not only a temporal component, but also a spatial understanding of the world as an organic biotic community …

…the processes of material production itself. Of course, by removing the potential energy base for other organic entities, this can lead to instability in the organic community as a whole. Therefore, we must not ask too much of nature and conserve the limited resources of the life giving Earth. Bibliography Leopold, Aldo. 1937. Teaching wildlife conservation in public schools. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. 30, pp. 77-86. Bibliography Attached with Paper