Green politics facts for kids

Green politics is a kind of politics that has been on the rise since the 1970s. The parties and movements that follow these ideas are usually called green:

• The most important idea is that whatever is done has an impact on ecology. The environment needs to be protected; technologies and means of production should therefore be sustainable and protect the environment.
• Environment politics must take into account the needs of the people. The ideas about social politics are mostly left-wing and support social justice.
• Many of these movements advocate greater democracy, oppose centralism and advocate grassroots democracy. If action is taken, it needs the support of most of the people.
• Advocacy for non-violence.

Greens have been most successful in Germany.

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• Environmentalism

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  The four green pillars

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  The six guiding principles

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  Susan George (political scientist), theorist of social justice and international development.

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  Saskia Sassen, theorist of international Human migration and urban sociology.

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  Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine complex in Tokyo in which sixty thousand people marched chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners to call on Japan's government to abandon nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster

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  The sunflower is recognized internationally as a symbol of green politics

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  Ashok Khosla was president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and also worked for the United Nations Environment Programme

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  Federation of Young European Greens demonstration in Copenhagen during the Climate Summit 2009

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  Bob Brown at a climate change rally in Melbourne, 5 July 2008

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  Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth

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  François Bausch, member of ATTAC, theorist of the Tobin Tax

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  Paul Mason, theorist of post-capitalism and Universal basic income

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  Serge Latouche, theorist of degrowth

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  Michael Albert, theorist of participatory economics (participism)

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  César Rendueles, theorist of Common good (economics) and open content and net neutrality

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  Antonio Negri, theorist of Post-fordism and immaterial labour

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  Naomi Klein has written about capitalism and climate

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  Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, is a proponent of the capabilities approach to animal rights

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  Anna Grodzka, Polish green LGBTQIA advocate