“Whether you call it capitalism, industrialism, socialism, liberalism or communism, every national economy in the world is based on the belief that more consumption is inevitably and incontrovertibly a Good Thing” [Green Party (1989) Don’t let your world turn grey. European Election Manifesto, London: Green Party E&W]
Greens often propose an integrated approach to multiple economic, political and ecological crises that they view as interrelated and necessarily global in nature…They view short-term economic and technological fixes as unlikely to address a myriad of problems that manifest themselves as different facets of a single crisis. This crisis is produced by industrial society and an economy that is structured around the need to serve capital as an end in itself…
Source: Peter Newell (2020) Global Green Politics, Cambridge University Press.
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