Principals of Conservation
Conserve for nature, or to conserve for human consumption. Conservation began with the forestry industry in 1908, and moved onward from there to other sectors. The term conservation can be broken into three stages, starting with development. The development view prioritized natural resources for the present generation first, to meet all their needs, and for future generations second. Making the goal of conservation more society based, rather than an environmental focus. Even though consumption of natural resources was part of conservation, the second point is more concerned with sustainability. The management of waste produced from using conservation techniques, was a major concern. Interested in minimizing waste produced, many functions and processes were streamed line, or more efficient ways were used. An example would be in the transportation industry, switching from rail to shipping. Waste control became a priority, and eventually leads to the formation and practice of controlling forest fires. Conservation deemed what was acceptable amounts of waste produced in industry and event nature, hence the forest fire control. Even though waste was a problem, providing the information and a clear understanding was an even larger problem. Education and understanding of controllable problems are well understood much in advance, before actions are put into motion to prevent the production of waste. The third point of conservation is resources benefit many and not the profits for the few. Resources should be used in the most efficient way to benefit the most people and to be sustainable. Conservation can be applied to many problems, and is a good tool for applying common sense to make an efficient and ethical decision. Overall conservation adds structure to choices and estimates incomes and impacts from these decisions. Final decisions apply more to benefiting the public as a whole presently and for future generations.
The invention of conservation allows the society the ability to see right from wrong. I think this has many good points, but not a perfect system. Having large amounts of people involved in decision making is a good idea for controlling the future of resource responsibility. The first rule is a bit to consuming for me though, I don’t think that the present resources should be used to their maximum benefit, I think they should be used in a conservative way, not using more than needed. The concept did change the world and the societies that adapted it.
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