Article ID: CBB388880977

The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic(s) (2021)

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The Anthropocene and the Holocene are coeval. Preserving the Holocene/Anthropocene climate is the overarching concern of twenty-first-century environmental philosophy and ethics. The second wave of the environmental crisis—ozone thinning, biodiversity erosion, and climate change—crested in the mid-1980s and is global in scale. The land ethic is local in scale. Therefore, an earth ethic is needed. Leopold sketched several in 1923: a three-pronged virtue ethic, a care ethic for posterity, an ethic of respect for the living planet. An individualistic ethic for distant future generations falls afoul of the non-identity paradox. Fiduciary care for global civilization can serve as a surrogate.

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Authors & Contributors
Kristen Wehner
Sarah E. Vaughn
Lai, Franco
Hultgren, John
Jeremy Davies
Jenny Newell
Concepts
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Anthropocene
Environmentalism
Climate change
Environmental history
Science and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
Italy
Veneto
Laos
Guyana; British Guiana
Sardinia
Institutions
World Bank
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