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An ethical thinking on sustainable management
──from A Sand County Almanac to Land Ethic and 921 Earthquake
Professor Hsu Yu-ming
Ecology was not regarded as important study until the masterwork A Sand
County Almanac was written by Aldo Leopold in 1947.
First of all, we will mention to the purpose of building national parks.
For the reason of sustainable management, establishing national parks
aims to satisfy both ecological conservation and tourist industry. It is
a compromise way, but too hard to get both duties. U.S. faced this
paradoxical problem many years ago, so does Taiwan now because we imitate
from their mode of national parks.
For example, both Yangmingshan National Park and Kenting National Park
are facing the pollution crisis for economic advantage. And Hsuehpa
National Park is managed by each district for protecting environment along
with guests’ entertainment. Resulting from human beings’ egoism on
ecological conservation, the taking from man’s profits sustainable
management becomes such a tough business.
Leopold referred to many innovative opinions like the harm of some
trivial, useless beings’ extinction in his book. Only by giving up the
fallacy that man is the conqueror or land owner in the ecosphere; then
perhaps we may get ecological conservation as far as possible.
Another ecologist Reachel Carson published a famous book Silent Spring
in 1962. She stated the aftermath of human beings’ ruining the environment
due to man’s short-sightedness. Plus, man would suffer the consequences
by his own doing.
Professor Chen Yu-feng published his book Land Ethic and 921 Earthquake.
Unlike these two ecologists, he expressed Leopold’s and Carson’s
viewpoints with more conservative tone.
In addition, the main issue is people’s different faiths and behaviors
on treating other living things while talking about environment ethic and
land ethic.