Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.
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16 Facts About Green politics
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The green ideology has connections with various other ecocentric political ideologies, including ecofeminism, eco-socialism and green anarchism, but to what extent these can be seen as forms of green politics is a matter of debate.
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Adherents to green politics tend to consider it to be part of a higher worldview and not simply a political ideology.
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In Finland, the Green politics League became the first European Green politics Party to form part of a state-level Cabinet in 1995.
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Green politics won the second-round run-off against the far-right Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer with 53.
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Green politics economics focuses on the importance of the health of the biosphere to human well-being.
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Green politics economics considers such growth to be "uneconomic growth"— material increase that nonetheless lowers the overall quality of life.
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Since the beginning, green politics has emphasized local, grassroots-level political activity and decision-making.
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Therefore, green politics seeks to increase the role of deliberative democracy, based on direct citizen involvement and consensus decision making, wherever it is feasible.
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Green politics encourages political action on the individual level, such as ethical consumerism, or buying things that are made according to environmentally ethical standards.
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Green politics mostly opposes nuclear fission power and the buildup of persistent organic pollutants, supporting adherence to the precautionary principle, by which technologies are rejected unless they can be proven to not cause significant harm to the health of living things or the biosphere.
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European Federation of Green politics Parties formed itself as the European Green politics Party on 22 February 2004, in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June 2004, a further step in trans-national integration.
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Green politics movements are calling for social change to reduce the misuse of natural resources.
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