Expanding the Conversation on Environmentalism and Working for Environmental Justice
A Review of The Land Ethic by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold begins his last chapter by presenting a harsh tale of Odysseus, a Greek hero who
returned home from his journey and, with no hesitation or remorse, hanged many of his slaves for rumors of their disobedience when he was away. In modern times, this act of punishment would seem cruel and lacking of any moral justice whatsoever, but Leopold stresses that in ancients’... more »