Green politics

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/green-politics

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the core ideological pillars?Ecological sustainability, nonviolence, social justice, and grassroots democracy
2. What is the influential early party?Die Grünen (The Greens) in West Germany, founded in the late 1970s
3. Why do green politics care about nonviolence?Because fighting and fighting hurts both people and nature. Green thinkers believe peaceful ways help keep everyone safe and the Earth healthy.
4. How did green politics start in the 1970s?In the 1970s people were worried about pollution, nuclear power, and running out of resources. Groups of activists, pacifists, feminists, and social justice supporters joined together and formed the first green parties, like die Grünen in Germany.

Ecological footprint: The measure of human demand on Earth's ecosystems, indicating the amount of land and water needed to sustain us.
Degrowth: A proposed economic and social model advocating for a planned reduction in the scale of production and consumption.
Environmental conflict: Disputes arising from competition over natural resources or the impacts of environmental degradation.