In 1862, John Ruskin (1862) published his book “Unto This Last,” which contains a proto-environmental indictment of the effects of unrestricted industrial expansion on both human beings and the natural environment. This book hashad an impact on Mahatma Gandhi, William Morris, and Patrick Geddes (Anonymous, 2010a, b; Philpott, 2015). The first systematic analysis of the destructive effects of humanity on the natural environment and a work that becomesbecame, in the words of Lewis Mumford, “the fountain-head of the conservation movement," was presented in athe book “Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action,” authored and published by George Perkins Marsh in 1864 (Marsh, 1864; Mumford, 1966; Anonymous, 2010a, b; Philpott, 2015). In 1865, William Stanley Jevons raised the question onof sustainability of coal energy throughin his publishingbook entitled “The Coal Question”. The term “Ecology” is“ecology” was coined in German as “Oekologie”“oekologie” by Ernst Haeckel in 1868 in his “Generelle Morphologie der Organismen”. Robert Angus Smith sometimes known as
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