Environmental Conservation Era

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According According to the united State of America Environmental Protection Agency define Environmental Management System as a set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency, these types of manage includes the four major types of eras are Protection era, Conservation era, Preservation era and sustainable development era. These eras came in due to the fact of mankind destruction on the abiotic and abiotic factors of the environment hence they are being destroyed. Upon the destruction of these of these abiotic and biotic factors then these eras came in place to help mitigate or minimize the damage done by human while exploiting the environment. These biotic …show more content…

Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste removal, pollution (air, land, and water), resource exhaustion, and sustainability. This movement became activate during the frontier days when mankind was recklessly exploiting the resources for increase in residential, industrial and recreational need hence seeing extinction of several species and some becoming endangered for example buffalo. The movement aim to reduce deforestation and destruction of wildlife due to mankind greed for money and pleasure to satisfy there needs. At its height, the conservation movement was a critical aspect of the broader reforms undertaken in the Progressive Era (1890-1910), as the rapidly industrializing nation struggled to protect human health, natural beauty, and the global sum of national efficiency. This highly effective Progressive Era movement was distinct from earlier conservation efforts and later environmentalist reforms. (Conservation in the progressive era classic text, 2004), the conservation movement was clearly a component of arriving natural market, a regulatory system on the exploitation of natural resources which caused conflict. It later move from just conservation effort and merge with environmentalist who specialized in …show more content…

In essence, the preservation of wilderness and landscapes were recognized as critical for future generations and their continued subsistence in a healthy environment. The foundation of the conservation movement is grounded during this period between 1850 and 1920. Ultimately, historical trends and cultural mind-sets were united, which influenced ideas and policy towards the early history of the conservation movement in the United States. Rachel Carson author of Silent Spring gathering examples of environmental damage attributed to DDT for several then became concern the ripple effect of this DDT found in synthetic pesticides during the mid-1940s, she speculate that the product was developed through the military funding of science since World War II. It was the USDA 's 1957 fire ant eradication program, however, that prompted Carson to devote her research, and her next book, to pesticides and environmental poisons. The fire ant program involved aerial spraying of DDT and other pesticides (mixed with fuel oil), including the spraying of private land. Landowners on Long Island filed a suit to have the spraying stopped, and many in affected regions followed the case closely even human being we suffering as deformities were seen rapidly in areas where used this dominantly for example: India . She brought to the attention

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