Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. Actually greens see no particular reason either to love or hate trade. They don't share the religious beliefs of economists, who love trade as indiscriminately as they love growth.
Greens are inclined to ask questions.
When those questions are answered, some trade looks lovable, and some we would be better off without. What enviros, along with human rights advocates, labor organizations, and many other citizen groups, emphatically do not love is the World Trade Organization. That's because they've had four years now to watch it work. The WTO ordered the Europeans to drop the import ban or suffer retaliatory tariffs. The U.S. Endangered Species Act requires shrimp trawlers to install turtle exclusion devices in their nets, so they will not catch and drown endangered sea turtles.