Aldo Leopold Believes That We Need to Develop a "Land

question 78

Multiple Choice

Aldo Leopold believes that we need to develop a "land ethic" that "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." What sort of attitude is Leopold trying to move our society away from?

• A) the new ecological paradigm
• B) grassroots
• C) conservation
• D) NIMBY
• E) anthropocentric

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