green politics

Sustainability-centered political movement

Green politics is a political ideology centered on environmentalism, sustainability, and ecological responsibility.

It advocates for policies addressing climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion.

Green politics typically aligns with progressive positions on social justice, nonviolence, and grassroots democracy: The Green Party brought green politics into mainstream electoral debates.

The movement emerged in the 1970s and has since established political parties worldwide.

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activism · direct action · grassroots · grass roots · renewable · renewable energy · solar · wind · net zero · conservation · biodiversity · organic · plant based · recycling · carbon · carbon footprint · emissions · protest

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Opposites
environmental priority

green politicsanti-environmentalism

Opposition to ecological protection

climate denialism · industrialism · resource exploitation · anthropocentrism

sustainability orientation

green politicsthrowaway culture

Norm of discarding over repairing

consumerism · planned obsolescence · resource exploitation

political-economic system

green politicsneoliberalism

Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology

corporate capitalism · plutocracy · crony capitalism · Reaganomics · Thatcherism

Family

green, greens, greener, greenest, greenness, greenish, greening, greened, politic

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