This article describes how the United States banned whaling in 1971, but activists want a worldwide ban on the industry because it is both ecologically harmful to the oceans and cruel.
Environmental concerns more to differ between rural and urban people. There is a non-exploitative attitude of farmers. Urban people tend to be more concerned.
This is a book review of two environmental poetry books, "Turtle Island" by Gary Snyder and "New Poems" by Kenneth Rexoth. The poems personify nature as a gentle mother who must be used wisely and not abused.