ABSTRACT
Tensions in ecological thinking between 'deep green' and 'anthropocentric' approaches, and between 'red-green' and 'neither left nor right' politics, make it impossible to speak as if there were a single green perspective. Is the green project primarily a cultural initiative, seeking to develop a fuller awareness of 'nature' in the belief that our eco-destructive ways are to be imputed to our impoverished environmental consciousness? Or is it a critique of political economy, rejecting on ecological grounds the 'Promethean' and productivist aspects of socialism, but arguing that a sustainable society will have to be a non-capitalist society? Green politics is the place where these two perspectives collide, and may perhaps coalesce.2
