ABSTRACT
All people display environmental stewardship within their personal ecosystems. Beyond the desire and productive capacity to act on threats to the environment is a practical aspect to stewardship. Historically, stewardship has been the ethic that integrated the divergent values. The individual who would craft a good solution to the environmentalist’s dilemma is the steward. The environmentalist’s dilemma is set against a landscape of rights, responsibilities and reality. At the core of many an environmental dilemma is the question of the rights of man and other species, as well as the responsibilities of man to other species. As a prelude to examining values and ethics, it will pay handsomely to refamiliarize ourselves with the reality boundary so that arguments remain within the confines of the real world. The reality of the world is that humans have multiple needs the environment must be able to supply.
