ABSTRACT
The green movement may be seen as a social movement, spawned from environmentalism, which goes deeper than politics to embrace ethics and fundamental attitudes to life. A sign that the green movement had sufficient power to disturb established governments came in 1985, when French intelligence officers sabotaged the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour to try and prevent it from engaging in non-violent protest at nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific. Social ecologists hold that environmental crisis is rooted in social crisis; an eminent exponent of this green philosophy is Murray Bookchin. Since the 1960s, and especially after the USA's 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), there have been growing numbers of lawyers specializing in environmental issues; journals and professional groups have also appeared, mainly in DCs. Free trade means that countries can obtain materials and continue to over-expand production; it can also mean production impacts are felt over a wider area.
