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'''Conservation''' and '''Environmentalism''' are competing philosophies of the environment.  Political conservatives generally favor "conservation" and political liberals generally favor "environmentalism".

'''Conservation''' and '''Environmentalism''' are competing philosophies of the environment.  Political [[conservative]]s generally favor "conservation" and political [[liberal]]s generally favor "environmentalism".

 

==Progressive Era==

==Progressive Era==

Both Conservationism and Environmentalism arrived in politics during the [[Progressive Era]]

Both Conservationism and Environmentalism arrived in politics during the [[Progressive Era]]

But is the environment a secondary issue, commanding insufficient attention from political candidates to play a major role in politics?  What cannot be ignored is the success with which the Republican party, beginning in the late 1970s, harnessed populist distrust of the federal government, the Democratic party, and the modern environmental regulatory state, and argued the alternative was the conservative agenda promoted by Republicans. In the West the most prominent organs of the federal government include the federal land agencies that oversee vast sweeps of the landscape. The growth of the Republican party's political power in the West was made possible by the rise of popular opposition to public lands reform.  Successful Democrats in the inland West and Alaska typically take more conservative positions on environmental issues than Democrats from the Coastal states.  Taking the conservationist position, conservatives drew on new organizational networks of think tanks, industry groups, and citizen-oriented organizations, and they began to deploy new strategies that affirmed the rights of individuals to their property, to hunt and recreate, and to pursue happiness unencumbered by the federal government.<ref>Turner (2009)</ref>

But is the environment a secondary issue, commanding insufficient attention from political candidates to play a major role in politics?  What cannot be ignored is the success with which the Republican party, beginning in the late 1970s, harnessed populist distrust of the federal government, the Democratic party, and the modern environmental regulatory state, and argued the alternative was the conservative agenda promoted by Republicans. In the West the most prominent organs of the federal government include the federal land agencies that oversee vast sweeps of the landscape. The growth of the Republican party's political power in the West was made possible by the rise of popular opposition to public lands reform.  Successful Democrats in the inland West and Alaska typically take more conservative positions on environmental issues than Democrats from the Coastal states.  Taking the conservationist position, conservatives drew on new organizational networks of think tanks, industry groups, and citizen-oriented organizations, and they began to deploy new strategies that affirmed the rights of individuals to their property, to hunt and recreate, and to pursue happiness unencumbered by the federal government.<ref>Turner (2009)</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* [[Owens Valley water dispute]] famous dispute re: water for Los Angeles in 1913

* [[Owens Valley water dispute]] famous dispute re: water for Los Angeles in 1913

* [[Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster]]

* [[Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster]]

==References==

==References==

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[[Category:Political Terms]]

[[Category:Environmentalism]]

[[Category:Environmentalism]]