“Aldo Leopold’s The Land Ethic” and Textbook “Environment and Society”

-This writing assignment asks you to reflect on Aldo Leopold’s The Land Ethic, which you will read in its entirety. The PDF to that reading is attached.
-Format: Double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt font, 1 inch margins
-This writing assignment is going to take the form of a very simple three part essay. It asks you to read Leopold’s Land Ethic and situate it within the perspectives on human-environment relations we learned about in our textbook “Environment and Society, A Critical introduction (Second Edition)” from Chapters 2-8. For each of the three parts, I have defined questions for you to address. Each part should be about one to one and a half pages double spaced, or 500 words. So in total it’s a three to four page writing assignment. Feel free to number each part of your essay. The only sources you should use should be The Land Ethic essay attached here (primarily) as well as your textbook (secondarily). The bulk of your assignment should be written in your own words with only select, limited direct quotes from sources to provide particular examples or emphasis.

Part 1) What approach/perspective on human-environment relations from our textbook is Leopold’s The Land Ethic associated with? Where do you find evidence of Leopold discussing this idea in his essay The Land Ethic? How does he make his argument?

Part 2) What are some of the other approaches/perspectives on human-environment relationships from our textbook that Leopold is reacting to in this essay? What are some passages from the essay in which Leopold addresses other perspectives? How is his perspective different?

Part 3) Explain two ways you see that this seminal work, The Land Ethic, has influenced thinking on the environment since it was first published in 1949.

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