Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, wrote “The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively, the land.” (Leopold 1949) Ecologists who support the ecology perspective believe that intrinsic value should be extended to all nature, whereas anthropocentrism limits values to the human realm as it is strictly concerned with human self-interest. At present, everything that we own is simply thrown away and replaced rather…
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