ABSTRACT
The most striking and perhaps unpalatable part of the Green message has been a rejection of both economic growth and growth in human numbers. Greens are opposed to simple notions of ‘progress’ and economic expansion. While other politicians vie with one another to maximize the standard of living, Green aspirants to office cycle in the opposite direction. The contrast between simple environmental concern and a critique that demands a static or diminished economic basis to maintain global ecology is fundamental. The growth test may be used as a swift and sure way of separating Green ideology from environmentalism.
