Chapter 22, The Land Ethic Summary and Analysis

The ethical sequence is a process of ecological evolution in itself and has not been studied by anyone except philosophers. An ethic is the difference between social and anti social actions. The first ethics dealt with the relation between people and later they dealt with the relationship between a person and his or her society. While there is the golden rule that tries to explain the persons role in society, and democracy that doe the same for the social organization and the individual, there isn't any ethic that deals with a person's relationship to the land and the animals and plants that live on it. The conservation movement is the first step to acknowledging that there is an ecological necessity to establish a code of ethics for the environment and people. The only person to...