Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation As A National Duty

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n his speech, Conservation as a National Duty, Theodore Roosevelt asserts his passion of conservation andpreservation onto a group of governors, statesmen, and conservationists. Throughout his message, he details severalreasons for the nation to stop wasting natural resources and begin conserving them. He also states that the questionof the conservation and use of the great fundamental sources of wealth of this nation is second only to the questionof morality. Conservation was indeed a priority for Theodore Roosevelt. In order to make connections betweenconservation and the progress, patriotism and morality of the American people, Roosevelt links conservation tomodern day civilization, urges the nation to consider future generations, and …show more content…
He said, “Every step of theprogress of man is marked by the discovery and use of natural resources previously unused. Without suchprogressive knowledge and utilization of natural resources population could not grow nor industries multiply nor thehidden wealth of the earth be developed for the benefit of mankind” (Roosevelt 3). This fact drove Roosevelt to callthe conference. He believed that the nation’s resources were threatened due to the “reckless and wasteful” use ofthem. He stressed that action and conservation needed to begin before the resources were exhausted.Adding to the link of conservation and civilization, Roosevelt linked the need for conservation by urging thethe nation to use its resources wisely for the benefit of generations to come. If the country did not exercise foresight,he determined that “dark will be the future” for the nation (Roosevelt 8). He compared foresight for the nation to aman conserving and wisely using the property which contains the assurance of well being for himself and his children.According to Roosevelt, the nation “can not do any of these things without foresight, and we can not, when thenation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresightthan we are showing at this moment as a nation”
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