With land ethic, the role of humans is changed from being the ruler of the land to simply just a citizen of that land. The role of the conqueror is the one who is supposed to know who and what is valuable or not for that specific community. However, it seems that in the end the conqueror ends up not knowing either and therefore is defeated.
One of the basics for an ecological understanding of land is to understand ecology. There is also a belief that economics determines land-use, but this is not true. The land owners are the ones to determine how things will be done based on investment time, skill, faith and other such aspects, but not the investment of money.
Both Pope Francis and Aldo Leopold used human vocation; a summons to a course of action. Pope Francis believes that we need to protect our environment. The earth embraces us, therefore, we need to do the same for her. Lastly, the Pope believes that in order to help protect our environment communities need to teach individuals about how we are supposed to guard the environment so that it will be secure for the future. Aldo Leopold call to action is for us to consider land-use. We need to respect the land and learn to not rely on where our food is coming