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14 pages in length. Since the advent of big business, the notion of environmentalism has been at the forefront of man's perpetual quest for progress. Industrialization brought with it a number of positives and negatives where society was concerned; one of the most detrimental aspects was the manner by which man began to spoil the environment around him in exchange for social, political, economic and technological advancement. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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society was concerned; one of the most detrimental aspects was the manner by which man began to spoil the environment around him in exchange for social, political, economic and technological
advancement. II. ORIGINAL AND MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO SCHOOL OF THOUGHT The environment has been in trouble for a long time. Decades
and decades of misuse, exploitation and degradation have placed a tremendous burden upon the land to the point where humanity is having to scramble to preserve what is left.
Re-establishing what has already been destroyed, as well as protecting what still exists, is what environmentalists are working feverishly to achieve. Unquestionably, every essence of life revolves around the
health and stability of the environment: business, economy, wildlife, personal and global. "...The development of environmental education has taken different forms and is found in different phases in individual
countries. Cultural influences as well as political systems have been acting to influence the implementation and progress of environmental education" (Leal Filho et al, 1992, p. PG). A
number of people were responsible for getting the environmentalism ball rolling, including but not limited to Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Malthus. III. PHILOSOPHIES As one
of the worlds most astute environmentalists of all time, Henry David Thoreau had no idea at the time of his writing of Walden Pond that he would be instigating such
an environmental war; he could never have anticipated the degradation that would ultimately come from his discovery. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had
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