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Green anarchism is an anarchism that proposes political, social and ecologically sustainable behaviour by the human community. In green anarchist ideology ecological unbalance, and hierarchies in general (such as uneconomic growth, economism, authority-power structures, international injustice, war, racism and centralism) are a direct result of the system of industrial civilization.
Though green anarchists share many of their beliefs with supporters of Green parties, green anarchists do not work within representative democracy. Green anarchists practice resistance to industrial civilization through autonomous direct actions. These actions are aimed at uniting a variety of system-critics such as supporters of non-violent action, eco activists, queer activists, animal rights acitivists, anti-capitalists and anti-elitists.
Green anarchism is often associated with primitivism or confused with the less extreme eco-anarchism (which advocates small-scale Ecovillages). However, not all green anarchists advocate a return to primitive styles of life; many support the use of advanced technology in an ecologically friendly way, and do not see an inherent conflict between human technology and biodiversity. Some are cyberpunks who exploit technology heavily, or Viridian Greens who see advantages in certain technologies, allowing the human species to transform itself into something more ecologically compatible.
Ecoanarchism's ideology is a branch of anarchism that focuses mainly on the ecological and environmental aspects of that philosophy. The aim of ecoanarchism is a means of ensuring human respect for ecology, e.g. a limited deliberative democracy with some respect for the rights of an ecoregion or species to exist, and some acceptance of feminism.
For a while the principle voice in the UK advocating an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking was the magazine Green Anarchist. It has been argued by a variety of political and academic commenters that green and anarchist ideals have been co-sympathetic for decades.
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See also: green economics, green parties, eco-anarchism, Soylent Greens, terrist, Green Anarchy
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