| − | '''Environmentalists''' are individuals who are concerned with protecting the environment and believe that legal limitations should be put on human use of the Earth's natural environment and resources, either for the sake of their preservation as an end unto itself or for the purpose of perpetuating them for the enjoyment of future generations. One of the first environmentalists was President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who co-founded the [[American Bison Society]] and used the passage of the [[Antiquities Act]] to preserve vast amounts of land, with the intention of helping to preserve it for other future naturalists. | + | '''Environmentalists''' are concerned with "protecting" the environment instead of letting human beings take dominion over it. Going way beyond [[conservationism]], they believe that legal limitations should be put on human use of the Earth's natural environment and resources, either for the sake of their preservation as an end unto itself or for the purpose of perpetuating them for the enjoyment of future generations. One of the first environmentalists was President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who co-founded the [[American Bison Society]] and used the passage of the [[Antiquities Act]] to preserve vast amounts of land, with the intention of helping to preserve it for other future naturalists. |