The protection for the natural environment against human interference has stepped up since the early 1990's. Most people in western countries have mistakenly considered the environment as only global warming, but tend to ignore other environmental issues. Like pollution of our oceans and water systems with plastic waste, over logging, etc. The earth has turned on humans lately with massive typhoons in Asia, Hurricanes causing massive destruction in the USA, droughts around the world, massive fires that have destroyed thousands of homes, and killed hundreds of people. Also some scientist are saying we are in a major extinction event not see for 60 million years, all because of human impact on the environment.