Environmentalism has developed, evolved and diverged into a complex network of ideas and behaviors, attempts to portray the historical development of environmentalism to the present day allowing the interpretation of shifting patterns in policy and action. In the earliest times a view of the universe existed that stems from Pagan and religious ideas that were closely allied to nature, this Natural Magic was widespread until the Renaissance, Figure 2.12 Alongside this belief was Aristotelian science and the Anthropocentric view of Medieval Cosmology, where the celestial regions encircled the Earth and Man had dominance over nature. Critically this sets out the notions of how Man relates himself to the environment, either, less than, equal to,
