After watching Green Fire today, I realize more that our society is split into paradigms regarding ecology and conservation. Like Aldo Leopold's daughter, Nina, in this video mentions, much of us our ecologically illiterate. I've taken classes like Ecology and Environmental Law; but it really hasn't come full circle until now. This semester I'm taking Environmental Leadership and it's about people like Aldo Leopold who was a thought leader. He lived his passion in sharing his knowledge about the wilderness, ecology, and conservation.
There are times I feel that no one cares, but then there are times I feel people really do care about our environment. Think of one great memory you've had spending time out in nature. Do we really want to slowly destroy the natural creations that have engaged us intellectually, physically, and in many other dimensions in life. It's like a nightmare coming to life when I realize we are greedy and we are slowly killing ourselves and the earth. However, there are leaders out there, much like Aldo Leopold, much like Muir, Pinchot, and Carson who see us headed on a downward spiral and make it a mission to take action. A healthy economy's integrity is rattled if people must put greed and consumption before the earth as a whole and neglect the ethics of all living things.
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