Fight for the Right of Earth
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You have probably watched the documentary by Al Gore, called “An Inconvenient Truth”. A lot of people believed it, but yet there are still a lot of people that are skeptics. There is a substantial amount of evidence that the planet is having serious problems, but there only a few people that are fighting to save it. It is very difficult to discount the fact that the Earth is sick and something needs to be done about it. However, the government and many companies do not want to help because they have a lot to gain from not helping. Although, not all parties in the government want to continue to exploit the natural resources that the planet has.
Green parties are advocates for the environment. They have a lot of issues to tackle ,such as how to decrease the effects of global warming, how to slow down the creation of holes in our ozone layer and, of course, how to become less reliant on oil. A lot of people feel that others are taking it to the extreme because they are calling for people to go back to basics. In reality, this is true. There are many ways people can conserve energy in their homes, they can even power their homes by solar energy.
A lot of countries have green parties, but of course, they belong to the minority. In the next ten years, there will be a growing number of supporters for the Green Party. You will find more and more celebrities getting involve with the Green Party. They are trying to spread the word that everyone needs to fight for their environment and their planet. They need to face reality that they cannot continue what they were doing ten years ago because they might end up furthering the destruction of their planet. They should start looking for alternative means of energy and, of course, alternative ways of getting our basic needs. Green parties definitely help spread the awareness for protecting the planet but, like every movement, they have a lot of hurdles that they need to get over.
What is a Green Party?
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Almost everyone has heard this term, Green Party. Yet not a lot of people really know what it means. Basically, a Green Party is a political party that is organized formally and is based on the main principles of green politics. So what is green politics? Well, it is plainly a political ideology that gives high priority on environmental goals such as grassroots policy and also participatory democracy. There are a lot of people that are now supporting the Green Party movement because of the fact there is a growing awareness on the protection of the environment and also alleviating the effects of global warming. It has been around for so many years however, the past ten years or so, there has been increased number of followers of this type of party.
Green parties normally call for some sort of social reform in order to decrease the amount of abuse of all our natural resources. They are advocates of sustainable energy which calls for less reliance on oil which is not a renewable source of energy. Some of them have already made bills pass in the legislative bodies of their country in order to development sustainable energy resources. Green parties also focus on the health of the environment and also, of course, the human being. This is very important especially in today’s day and age because almost all our natural resources are being depleted because of capital gains and also because of basic human greed.
Green parties support non-violence. That is why a lot of them opposed the war of terrorism which was mainly supported by other parties. Because they adhere to the spirit of nonviolence, most green parties feel that the war on terrorism somehow curtailed the civil rights of people. In the United States, a country where there is a huge amount of support for the war on terrorism, green parties are now calling for an end to it. Although, a lot of people feel that they are taking it to a very extreme level, there is still a growing amount of people that support green parties.
