Green anarchism

Green anarchism is a strand of anarchism that opposes domination of people and the natural world. It advocates ecological living and decentralized communities.

Anarchism: A political tradition opposing coercive hierarchy and advocating voluntary association and self-governance. Green anarchism extends anarchist opposition to domination into human relationships with the natural world.
William Godwin: An English political philosopher whose 1793 work Enquiry Concerning Political Justice argued against government and coercive institutions. His critique of authority helped establish the anarchist tradition green anarchism draws upon.
Direct action: Political action taken directly by participants to achieve an aim without relying on representatives or intermediaries. Green anarchists use direct action to confront projects and institutions they see as ecologically destructive.
Environmentalism: A broad movement and set of ideas seeking to protect the environment and address ecological problems. Green anarchism generally challenges hierarchy more directly than environmental approaches focused on policy reform.
Appropriate technology: Technology designed to fit local needs, skills, resources, and ecological conditions. It offers one answer to whether green anarchist communities can use tools without reproducing industrial dependence.
Social ecology: A body of thought linking ecological crises to social hierarchies and proposing democratic, decentralized communities. Its account of hierarchy connects environmental destruction with domination among people.
Peter Kropotkin: A Russian anarchist theorist who argued that cooperation and mutual aid shape social and biological life. His account of mutual aid informs green anarchist visions of cooperative communities.
Intentional community: A residential community whose members deliberately organize around shared values or goals. Such communities can put decentralized, ecological ways of living into practice.
Ecofeminism: A family of theories linking the domination of women with the exploitation of nature. It shares green anarchism’s attention to connected forms of domination while developing distinct feminist analyses.
Political ecology: The study of how power relations shape environmental change, resource access, and ecological conflicts. It provides ways to examine whose interests and authority shape environmental decisions.

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EcofascismCompared with: It offers an anti-authoritarian ecological politics at odds with ecofascist rule.