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H. G. Wells was environmentalist

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Apart from Rachel Carson, you can consider the British writer HG Wells as an early precursor of environmentalism. This proposal was reflected in his famous novel The War of the Worlds. In addition to sue the imperialist activities of England and Victorian hypocrisy, also mentioned the industrial development of the world's great cities culminating in the destruction of vast acres of forest and climate changes in the region, also taking into account the disappearance and extinction of animal species such as the dodo, the American bison (this species fortunately managed to survive in 1920), Wells had suffered from tuberculosis as well as several writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Orwell, large factories poisonous gases emanating both from industrial wastes in open field, giving a very unpleasant sight.

It can be understood in several ways.
-The Mars for his octopoda physiognomy, represents the human brain as an organism that never sleeps and works all the days of the years.
-The War machine (tripod), represents the human body as well as industrial power and machinery.
-The Humanity animal species are threatened by invaders.
-The Towns and cities in England, symbolizing natural environments equally threatened by man's machinery and consumerism.
-The Red grass, it would identify the splendor of man, such as asphalt, concrete and roads that alter the soil in many natural areas which changed the lives of animals.

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The Martians also captured London and turned it into their own city, much in the same way we may take a rabbit's home and build a house on it.