Indeed, the environmental movement – like most modern social movements – began in the US. The roots of America’s “environmental movement” lie in the nineteenth century, when the damage wrought by the industrial revolution and the fragmentation of the natural landscape by individual property rights and tenures first became apparent.
实际上，正如大多数现代社会运动一样，环保运动发端于美国。美国“环保运动”的根源来自十九世纪。当时，工业革命造成的损害以及个人产权和终身享有对景观造成的破碎第一次变得明显。