'''Conservation''' and '''Environmentalism''' are competing philosophies of the environment. Political conservatives generally favor "conservation" and political liberals generally favor "environmentalism".
==Progressive Era==
Both Conservationism and Environmentalism arrived in politics during the [[Progressive Era]], but conservatism basically comes from a stone age mentality where stupid,. bigoted people parade bigotry and prejuduces as truth.
In the early 20th century there were three main positions. The laissez-faire position held that owners of private property--including lumber and mining companies, should be allowed to do anything they wished for their property.