"The Land Ethics"- Erika Sikon

What are your own “Land Ethics?” I believe we should not litter or pollute. Respect the animals and nature by leaving them and their habitats alone. You should try not to break tree branches off trees and kill animals. Aldo Leopold writes that “The Land Ethics” is a belief by “preservationists” that the nonhuman world has a life of its own that is worth protecting and respecting for other reasons than to serve the needs of humans (57). His beliefs are stronger than mine, but similar. People need to use nature more wisely. Now people do not care about the trees or the animals they just care of the money. The reason we are seeing more deer getting hit by cars is because their habitats are becoming smaller and fewer. 1.5 million crashes involve deer every year. If we could go back even 20 years ago you would be surprised how much has changes and how more forests and wilderness there was back then. Because of the growing populating people we are building more places to live and work. We have taken over the world. If there were no parks or protected wetlands our world would just be pavement with a small tree or shrub stuck in a few places. This could become the case in a few more years. We have talked about the different “powers” a place holds in class. Each place does have its own life and power. If we rid the world of nature then we have just killed another life that is essential to our own lives. On page 58 Gatta says we need to treat the land no as a "commodity belonging to us" but rather a "community to which we belong."