ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER TEORİLERİ II

The second important negative effect of the Cold War era for the environmental politics is the political polarization between states. These polarizations curbed the environmental cooperation between the states during the Cold War. For example, the USSR and Warsaw Pact nations boycotted Stockholm Conference in 1972 due to the lack of inclusion of East Germany to the Conference.

Green political thinking generally is seen as a new ideology emerging at the end of the twentieth century while the first ecological movements can be traced back to the nineteenth-century rebels against industrialization.

The main principal purpose of the conference was declared as “to serve as a practical means to encourage, and to provide guidelines … to protect and improve the human environment and to remedy and prevent its impairment”.

During the 1980s, environmental politics, women and gender issues, peacemaking and nuclear non-proliferation played the main role in green politics, and first green political parties were established in Europe.

Major issues of the green parties were ecological responsibilities, social justice, non-violence, and grassroots democracy (Erçandırlı, 2017: 496).

The increasing impact of industrialization, globalization and technological developments have been beneficial for our lives but also have created many problems. Green ideology criticizes the economic and technological developments that damage nature.

Green Thought does not distinguish or prioritize the human being from the rest of the nature, instead assumes human beings as a part of the nature. This non-hierarchical approach called “ecocentrism” is the central feature of green thought.

Anthropocentrism refers to a human-centered worldview which regards the nature within the human values.

The ecocentric political philosophy denies the human-centered view and denotes a nature-centered ethical view.

Greens argue for a more comprehensive framework for understanding security that takes human well-being and ecosystem integrity as the ethical and analytical reference point (Eckersley, 2013: 275)

The arguments listed are all against Green Theory.