Question

Differentiate the preservation ethic from the conservation ethic. Explain the contributions of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot in the history of environmental ethics.

Answer 1

Preservation ethic is protecting our environment in an unaltered state while Conservation ethic says put natural resources to use but that we have a responsibility to manage them wisely.

John Muir argued that nature deserved protection for its own value

Gifford Pinchot founded what would have become the U.S. Forest Service.