To maintain a balance in the ecosystem. To avoid further destruction of the environment. To avoid over-consumption of natural resources.

These systems and structures impact the distribution of resources, money and power in a community and around the world. This distribution, known as the socioeconomic environment, shapes how communities and individuals can gain the resources needed to meet their basic human needs.

Oil, coal, natural gas, metals, stone and sand are natural resources . Other natural resources are air, sunlight, soil and water. Animals, birds, fish and plants are natural resources as well. Environmentalism was started so that all the afore-mentioned resources could be identified, classified and reserved accordingly.

Environtalism was also started for the big reason of sensitising people about pollution and its negative impact on the earth. environmentalism is the reason many people have employed careful measures to protect and reserve earth and its resources

John Muir was one of America's most famous naturalist and conservationist and Muir Woods, part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is named in his honor. Muir is credited with both the creation of the National Park System and the establishment of the Sierra Club.John introduced the concept of Environmentalism to America.

DDTs were a form of insecticides that were famous for killing mosquitoes but they had a strong impact causing the rapid depletion of the ozone layer. environmentalism was introduced as a measurement to protect the ozone layer and lead to the banning of DDTs

Environmentalism was also started to protect the countryside of Europe and United States during the 1st industrial revolution

with the introduction of the first industrial revolution came the reservatory concept of environmentalism in effort to harbor the negative impacts of the revolution that would develop the world

with the Ozone layer depletion mainly due to DDTs, came the solution and it was Environmentalism.