The American Conservation Movement

Within the past fifty years, people have been creating new ways to save the Earth that we have actually destroyed. These actions are in an effort for total or partial conservation, which came forth in the late eighteen hundreds. The Conservation Movement, which occurred from eighteen-fifty to nineteen-twenty, was to act as an effort to protect America's wildlife, wildlands, and natural resources. However, conservation then and now has been, mostly, for humans. In fact, the conservation movement was created when cities in America became overcrowded after mass industrialization. Conservation was not originally for the benefit of the ecosystems, and the precious natural resources we had, but an anthropocentric conservation movement that was a …show more content…
This movement was the first of its kind, a movement to protect national wildlife, wilderness, and natural resources. However, this movement was not for the benefit for the ecosystems which precious resources and wildlife existed, but was initially created for the benefit of humans. During the second industrial revolution, cities became overcrowded which led the cities citizens to yearn for a peaceful place to escape. With this, American’s took up outdoor activities like camping, fishing, and other outdoor recreational activities. This led to a better appreciation for the scenery that the wilderness brought to the table, and later led to the creation of our first national parks like the Yosemite and Yellowstone. With the creation of these anthropocentric conservation methods, we set up and long term human-oriented conservation …show more content…
we program our society to use up what's around us so we can be happy, which involves living a life of luxury and excess. Still when we discovered what we're doing is wrong and we can serve these habitats we do it for selfishness we do it because the ecosystem or the habitat benefits us or we save the animal but not the ecosystem that it lives in despite the to being linked. Our conservation methods are location specific for example United States we have the cemeti we have national parks but what about the Amazon or the coral reefs of Australia. Well we are protecting me small areas our destruction is causing 2 x the harm. Simultaneously current conservation of list or not going to the source of the problem. similarly conservationists will have to find a way to balance urbanized areas and natural landscapes and while we'll never be able to go back to how the Earth was even 100 years ago, we will have to find a way to balance the billion more people that will be coming onto the Earth and maintaining these habitats so they are not industrialized for these upcoming people. current conservationist also have to focus more on humans to get to the root of the problem the mass killing of animals for meat or selling them can indicate famine or