Teddy Roosevelt: The Importance Of Conservation

What is Conservation? Conservation is the protection and preservation of something. Theodore Roosevelt, our twenty sixth president believes that it is a necessity for us to conserve our nature for our generation, and future generations. He was able to get many on board with his ideas. Conservation was very important for many. The amount of resources that were being used in such a short time, would put us on track to have a very slim amount in the future. Roosevelt believes that we can’t be wasteful of them, we have to be smart with them. Our natural resources are what we survive on, if we waste them, animals won’t have homes, or food. That also can hurt us, as we won’t have food, the air we breathe won’t be as fresh, and also just the mere beauty of it is worth a lot. All of these things are the reasons Teddy Roosevelt was making this speech, and why he thought it was so important to conserve our natural resources.

The progress we’ve made in the last two hundred years is greater than thousands of years before that. A draw back with the progress however, is that with more innovations, the natural resources are being forgotten about. People don’t have foresight, most aren’t looking toward what could happen if we stay on this road. We need to be looking toward the future, so we don’t waste our resources. We won’t our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. to have all the resources we have today. It has fallen under the duty of the government to conserve our resources. We don’t need them just for the rich, we need them for all. Theodore Roosevelt believed that we needed foresight, to match with the progress we are