They are the mothers enraged about their children's illnesses who organize a toxic waste protest, or the workers who get the shop steward to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Except for the unions, grassroots groups have weak central staffs if any. The most striking exception is the Citizens Clearinghouse on Hazardous Wastes which grew out of the Love Canal toxic disaster, and which now networks more than 500 local anti-toxics groups around the country. Their militancy is often undercut, however, by their communities' dependence on the jobs and tax-base of the companies they are fighting. Greens This term came into vogue with the ascension of the West German Green Party into the Bundestag, and the subsequent emergence of Green parties throughout Europe and the Third World.
Deep ecology is an anti-rationalist philosophy, and therefore difficult to define.
Industrial society is like a cancer spreading through a global host. They have blown up construction equipment and spiked trees to stop logging. EcoMarxism EcoMarxists continue the Marxist tradition of arguing that all social problems result from capitalism. Almost all American socialist and communist groups and individuals express reductionist eco-Marxist views. Their basic point is that patriarchal society associates women with nature, and rapes and debases both.