I am a big
conservation advocate and make it known on my personal blog.
Our great American President, Teddy Roosevelt, declared that conservation “is the chief material question that confronts us, second only—and second always—to the great fundamental questions of morality,” exclaimed Roosevelt. Americans had “become great in a material sense because of the lavish use of our resources,” he explained and had “just reason” to be proud of what they had done. “But,” he intoned: "the time has come to inquire will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas, when the soils shall have been still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation. By planning ahead, he said, these could be avoided. "One distinguishing characteristic of civilized men is," he said. "We have to, as a nation, exercise foresight for this nation in the future; and if we do not exercise that foresight, dark will be the future!"
