Sustainable Energy/Laboratory 1/Aronson
A Review of Important Readings in Environmental Ethics
Please read the papers listed in the hyperlinks and answer
the questions listed below:
The Land Ethic by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold Biographical Information
1. What issues concerning sustainability are addressed in the Brundtland
Report?
2. Are the issues of intragenerational equity, intergenerational equity (Environmental Justice) and ecological justice dealt with in the Report?
3. What international directives for the environment/sustainability are suggested by the Report?
4. Please find the "Land Ethic" within the chapter and state it below:
5. Is the land ethic anthropocentric or nonanthropocentric in orientation?
6. Why should we extend our ethics to a non-living entity like the "land"?
7. Leopold's "Land Ethic" has been called "ecocentric".
Why?
8. Is Leopold's ethic a "rights based" ethic or "utilitarian"?
9. Why is Leopold's ethic a sustainable ethic?
10. It could be argued that Leopold's ethic has it's basis in evolutionary
theory. Why could one make this argument?