COMM2208 Study Guide - Final Guide: A Sand County Almanac, Hubris, Ocean Acidification
28 Mar 2014
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In the passage from aldo leopold"s on a monument to the pigeon from his work a sand. County almanac, leopold highlights the issue of hubris within mankind and also emphasizes the lack of change within humans despite knowledge discovered over a century ago. Leopold describes how men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures . Being fellow- voyagers equalizes men with the other species in the odyssey of evolution . The lack of human acknowledgement for other creatures and the tendency of men to put themselves heedlessly above their fellow species prevents mutual existence. Leopold also addresses the lack of action taken by humans despite the knowledge uncovered over a century ago. As he puts it, this . knowledge should have given us . a sense of kinship . a wish to live and let live . Men continue to display self-regard for their own importance rather than regard for the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise .
