Rights of nature: Difference between revisions

Scientists who similarly wrote in support of expanded human moral development and ethical obligation include naturalist [[John Muir]] and scientist and forester [[Aldo Leopold]]. Leopold expressed that "[w]hen we see land as a community to which we belong", rather than "a commodity belonging to us", we can "begin to use it with love and respect". Leopold offered implementation guidance for his position, stating that a "thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."<ref name="Leopold 1949"/><ref name="Nash 1989"/>{{efn|name=fn1}} Berry similarly observed that "whatever preserves and enhances this meadow in the natural cycles of its transformation is good; what is opposed to this meadow or negates it is not good."<ref name="Berry 1993"/><ref name="Nash 1989"/> Physician and philosopher [[Albert Schweizer]] defined right actions as those that recognize a reverence for life and the "will to live".<ref name="Schweitzer 1933"/><ref name="Nash 1989"/>

 

 

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