Before the emergence of modern "environmentalism", people were worried about the adverse consequences of human activities on nature. As early as ancient Rome and China, social critics at that time began to complain about air, water and noise pollution.
Environmentalism can be traced back to enlightenment thinkers, such as Rousseau in France, and then Thoreau, an American writer. Organized environmentalism began in Europe and the United States at the end of 19 as a response to the industrial revolution and its unlimited economic expansion.
"Green politics" was originally a conservation movement, such as 1892 Mountain Association established in San Francisco.
Due to the rise of "eco-fascism" in Germany, the modern Green Party began to become an important political force. Moreover, the political Green Party and the neo-fascist party have many similarities in appearance.
The green man's proposition uses ecological terms and policies related to environmental protectionism, deep ecology, feminism, pacifism, anarchism, free socialism, social democracy, ecological socialism and social ecology. From 65438 to 0970, the influence of these movements gradually increased, and green politics combined these goals and became a new philosophy.
1972 In March, the world's first Green Party, the United Tasmania Group, was established in a public gathering in Hobart, Australia. 1972 in may, the values party was founded at a meeting of Victoria university in Wellington, new Zealand, which was also the first national green party in the world to compete for seats in the national assembly. A year later, 1973, the first green party in Europe, the British Ecological Party, began to operate.
The German Green Party is not the first Green Party to participate in the national election, but they have attracted the most media attention. The German Green Party participated in the national election for the first time on 1980. The German Green Party was originally a temporary alliance of civic groups and political movements, and their demands were not taken seriously by the main political parties. 1979 After the general election in Europe, they held a meeting and established the four pillars of the Green Party. All groups in the alliance agreed to use these four pillars as the basis of the party program and merged all groups into a single political party. This statement of principle was later adopted by other green parties in the world. They are also the first political party to use green (Grün in German) and sunflower logo in its name. 1980, the Green Party won 27 seats in the German Bundestag.
The first time Canada stepped into green politics was in the federal election of 1980. There were 1 1 independent candidates from coastal provinces (one from Montreal and one from Toronto) who participated in the election as small parties. (elizabeth may, the current chairman of the Canadian Green Party, was the initiator at that time and one of the independent candidates of 1 1). Inspired by E.F. Schumacher's "Small is Beauty", the young master chose anti-nuclear as his appeal in this election. Although not registered as an official political party, some stakeholders decided to set up the Green Party of Canada at 1983 (the Green Party of Ontario and the Green Party of British Columbia were also established in the same year).
From 65438 to 0995, the Finnish Green Alliance was the first European Green Party to enter the cabinet. Then from 1998 to 2005, the German Green Party and the German Social Democratic Party formed a ruling alliance (the so-called "red-green alliance"). In 20001year, an agreement was reached to gradually terminate Germany's use of nuclear power generation, continue to maintain the ruling Coalition, and support German Chancellor Schroeder to send troops to Afghanistan in 20001year. Although this behavior is not consistent with other Greens in the world, it also proves that they can handle difficult political transactions.