Is protecting nature a responsibility of citizenship?

Answer 1

Protecting nature is an individual responsibility and if everyone accepts that responsibility there will be no need for citizen responsibility. Protecting nature is not done so by politics, and to believe that government will do what you are unwilling to do is folly. In order to protect nature we must first understand nature, in order to protect anything we must first know how to protect. Turning to government and demanding new laws that 'protect our environment' will not accomplish anything but endless compromise. You have a much better chance of protecting nature by flourishing and prospering so you might own property of which you can protect than by demanding an incompetent administrative agency protect you from what? Litterbugs? People who drive S.U.V.'s? Evil corporations? Accept responsibility for all you can, and accept that all you can is not enough. It is never enough.