Autobiography of earth

To start a journey into environmental ethics, begin with what you know. One of the best ways to become aware of what you already know about environmental ethics is to write an autobiography of your relationship with the earth.

Autobiography of earth

Ethics is a matter of connecting head and heart. But too often ethical reasoning becomes detached from our experience, emotions, feelings, and deepest if unacknowledged commitments. By telling the story of the history of your relationship with the earth, you can better reflect on why we value the natural world as we do.

And by reflecting on these deeper commitments of the heart, you can better refine our ethical reasoning about the environment.

Step One

The great American environmentalist Aldo Leopold said in Sand County Almanac that "we can be ethical only in relation to something that we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in." In light of Leopold's comment, we invite you in the course of writing this autobiography to think