There is also a dash of tyrannical misanthropy to some deeper shades of Green. Socialism is based on an enormous insight,' says Wolfgang Sachs, for example. Technical progress provides us with a floor under which nobody has to fall. Scarcity can be removed. The hope of socialism is that all people can lead a dignified life.
Environmentalism adds another dimension.
It says there is not just a lower limit, there is also an upper limit. There is a threshold beyond which there can be no more justice or democracy because progress, or wealth creation, takes a form in which not everybody can participate. There is a ceiling. The difficulty for Greens is that although they have influence they've never had political power. Projects and agendas proliferate, but capitalism adapts, the trees keep falling and inequality deepens.