When people talk about the environment, we will think about Theodore Roosevelt, who pioneered the concept of vast national parks and great American wilderness. Once he is there also a green heroes like John Muir and Rachel Carson.
But the real winner long before the 20th century, and some of the most famous people in history and they are real environmentalists - they do not even realize it. Of Genghis Khan, King Edward I of England, these 10 historical figures who have done much to preserve the planet, from lower global temperatures, promote animal rights and land set aside for conservation.
1. Gengis Khan (1162 - 1227)
One of history's most famous ruler, Genghis Khan established the Mongol Empire and, at the time of his death, had conquered everything from the Japan Sea to the Caspian Sea.
The Mongol nomads known as a farming community and do not mind killing the enemy even if a thousand people. As they swept through Asia, they destroy a population that is very, very wide and large. agricultural land were destroyed, which returned to the natural forest (we do not think genocide is the solution).
In a study by published in The Holocene, Julia Pongratz of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology argues that the scale of the area to be cooled back to the jungle planet. it's really extreme wah!
2. King Edward I (1239 - 1307)
Edward I of England, called "Edward Longshanks," is currently known as the king of evil where William Wallace fought for freedom in the film Braveheart. But in 1306, he was more concerned with coal from the oppression of Scotland.
Tired of the smoke produced by burning coal, he banned the use of coal. He will give punishment that would make the coal industry is now thinking twice, torture or execution.
Unfortunately the harsh laws being ignored because they are too poor to buy wood.
3. Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994)
37th President of the United States who fell reputation because of the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, but the environment should give him another look. In 1970, he announced the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
In the same year, he also signed the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, which sets the environmental impact statement as a prerequisite for any federal project.
4. Pythagoras (570 BC - 495 BC)
It is debatable whether the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician was banning the use of all animal products, or if he was okay with the use of cattle for plowing.
On the other hand, he is recognized as a defender of animal rights, and as a vegetarian.
School of Pythagoras, based on his teachings, seeing animals have souls.
5. Martin Luther King, Jr.. (1929 - 1968)
Martin Luther King, Jr. is closely related to the civil rights movement that he led in the 1950's and 60's. But many do not know that he is considered as part of the environmental injustices African American oppression.
In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called the King of the father of environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as an issue of civil rights - for minority and low-income populations have the same right to be free from health hazards posed by the practice others.
6. Anyos Jedlik (1800 - 1895)
Anyos Jedlik not widely known, but his work is: In 1827, Jedlik, he created the world's first electric motorcycle. The following year, he placed the device on the car model to demonstrate the conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy.
He did not predict the short domination of the electric car or a rise in the 21st century.
7. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
In addition to preserving the Union, ending slavery, and establish Thanksgiving as a holiday, Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Academy of Sciences, and approved federal protection of the land that would become Yosemite National Park.
8. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Besides he fought for India's independence from Britain, Mohandas Gandhi also highlighted the issues of poverty, women's rights and workers' rights. In the third campaign he talked about the environment, arguing that workers in urban factories suffered from shortness of breath due to poor air quality. He wrote in 1905:
Because of high land prices in urban areas, the factory building is not large enough, and the row houses is also very little labor, produces deterioration of health ... A man can live without food for a few days and live a day without water, but it is impossible to do without air even for a minute.
He also warned against industrialization, calling people to live simply, and vegetarian.
9. Ted Kaczynski (1942 -)
Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, representing the extremes, the modern environmental movement-people who are willing to use violence and murder to their destination. In 1971, a brilliant mathematician and schizophrenic paranoid left a promising career at UC Berkeley to live in a remote Montana cabin.
One of the victims of the bombing campaign was Thomas J. Kaczynski mail Mosser, an executive at Burson-Marsteller, a public relations firm to help clear the name of Exxon after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. In 1995, he killed Gilbert Murray, president of the Timber Association of California, a lobby group timber.
Kaczynski, who is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, is one of the examples of "eco-terrorists," l.
10. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A nature lover, Jefferson envisioned a full American yeomen farmers. He once wrote: "We have to use a lot of wood in our economy, never cut the new."
However, as said by Peter Ling in History Today, the practice of Jefferson at his Monticello plantation resulted in erosion, wind and rain and loss of soil nutrients. He enthusiastically importing alien plant species, and its program to sell 160 acres of farmland in the square plot ignores the uniqueness of all the land west of the Mississippi.
Jefferson Ling found not guilty, he is not the guilty party, it is because too much faith in human rationality and wisdom of the natural workings of nature.
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