Abstract

Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic was one of the first clarion calls announcing a new era of thinking about Nature; but it is obviously difficult for the human race to turn conceptual insights into action. I propose that the missing link lies in acknowledging non-human personhood. If we allow ourselves to “personize” Leopold’s Land; we enable moral behavior towards the world as a whole. In this paper; I build on Leopold and develop the acknowledgement of non-human personhood as the logical and necessary next step in his Ethical Sequence.