I would like to start with Leopold's statement, and further explore how the definitions of integrity, stability and beauty can be better understood given three corollary's: 1. All organic entities must consume to survive - it is not only a right, but a responsibility 2. There are limited resources to be consumed by organic entities on the planet 3. The human species has the ability, through rational thought, to conserve ever-depleting resources Leopold's ethic attempts to extend what is of human, moral concern to include animals, ecosystems, and endangered species. How can this

The human sensory methods of discovery tend to miss many relationships between organic entities. We tend to miss a lot of things when we are not actually living in nature as well. The modern market-driven consumer society is very different from the consumer community of the totality of organic entities on the earth - and quite possible less complex. We tend not only to consume resources, but technology allows us to build things that consume resources just in the production process itself. These, in turn, produce forms of energy that can then be consumed by human beings as a species. Finite energy resources Up until now, I have neglected the inorganic life that abounds on the planet. I will now turn to the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states that in any closed system, entropy is always increasing. Organic entities require energy for survival, and entropy, which is a measure of the amount of energy unavailable for work during a natural process, is constantly increasing. That is, the more we consume, the more waste is produced that is not available to organic entities to survive. Organic entities and communities do nothing more than recycle energy throughout the planet - from the flower, to the wolf, to the ocean. It is our consumption, in relation to the community as a whole, that we must keep in mind. Community stability The stability of the land is crucial to maintain the recycling of energy for living communities. We run into problems with the realization that energy can take on different forms, and those types available may not be able to be consumed by the individual entities that inhabit it. Reductions in the number of species, and their interdependent relationships, over time will result in unstable systems which can no longer recycle usable energy due to the lack of entities that can consume it. The human relevance here is that our actions, which are currently removing entire organic communities, will have dramatic effects on the stability of the organic community. Here, it is important to see that individuals contribute to and affect the stability of the community as a whole. Community integrity The integrity of the organic community is a difficult concept to address in an ever-changing natural world. I would like to relate it to the spatial component of interconnectedness between organic entities within and between the organic community. Here, organic entities are but a process within the recycling process of the earth as a whole. The individual components, aside from extremely damagin

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