Leopold’s Land Ethics For Our Ecological Civilization Education

Known as the "father of wildlife management","USA prophet" Leopold, is USAfamous environmentalists and pioneers, its influence in the field of environmental ethicsand the history of thought is profound, his era of vision and thought has not attracted muchattention at the time of the under the conditions of, But with the development of eradevelopment and industry, as well as to the environmental problems caused by, peoplebegan to realize the Leopold deep thought and great. An interpretation of Leopold’secological holism, especially the most typical "land ethics" idea, the essence and thetheoretical value and deep mining of its thought, is of great theoretical and practicalsignificance to our contemporary education of ecological civilization.Based on the ecological environment problems of our country transition process fromthe traditional society to the modern society in Leopold, land ethics theory in dealing withthe environment crisis and solve many environmental problems has very important modelsignificance and enlightenment. Therefore, we should learn from Leopold’s earth ethics boldmining and active, running so that the construction of ecological civilization in our countrytowards a rational, efficient orbit.Based on the ecological thought of Leopold, especially in his land ethic thought isguidance, to environmental science, ecological science, open up a new field of Ideologicaland political education, the moral education in the ideological education, political education,moral education, ecological civilization education content includes the width, so that theecological civilization education has become an important and indispensable content a newideological and political education. This article draw attention of Leopold in ecologybeneficial results, continue to carry forward the traditional culture of Chinese ecologicalwisdom. The ecological civilization education and practice, improve people’s overall quality,ecological civilization education is quality education to explore new.This paper consists of three parts: the first part briefly introduces Leopold’s life and socialbackground and academic works, theoretical and practical origins of earth ethics produces; the second part introduces the main contents and characteristics of land ethics, as well as theevaluation of land ethic thought; The third part is the key content, mainly discusses thereference earth ethics thought on Ecological Civilization Education of our country, dividedinto two points discuss, first discusses the current China’s environmental problems, andfrom Leopold’s land ethics content caused to our ecological civilization education.