13.2 Green Issues: Beyond the Environment

While Greens focus on the environment, it is misleading to think of this as a single issue in modern political terms. Environmental issues run the gamut from reversing global warming to cleaning up the local pond. Environmentalism is a massive umbrella term that in fact encompasses a whole host of issues that play out at the local all the way up to the global level. A few of these issues are discussed in the upcoming pages.