ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Land Ethic, Biocoenosis, Ecological Succession

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

Raw wilderness gives definition and meaning to the human enterprise. Hung 12 girls who worked in his house on a rope because he thought they were misbehaving. However, the idea of ethics still existed. The extension of ethics is a process in ecological evolution. An ethic is a limitation on freedom of action in the struggle for existence. Ethics is what separates social and antisocial conduct. Politics and economics are examples of symbioses. As population density increases, so does the amount of cooperation mechanisms. The first ethic dealt with relationships between individuals. Later, ethics dealt with relations between individuals and society. There is still no ethic dealing between man and land/plants/animals. We still see our land as our property and something that can give up economic benefits and privilege but we don"t have any obligations towards it. Extension of ethics is an evolutionary possibility but an ecological necessity.