The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to green politics, a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy. It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then Green parties have developed and established themselves in many countries across the globe, and have achieved some electoral success. Green politics can be described as: activism an ideology a political ideology a social movement a political movement part of the environmental movement Green politics Green nationalism Green party Agrarianism Environmentalism Localism Social liberalism Green politics shares many ideas with the following movements: Animal rights movement Anti-globalization movement Alter-globalization movement Climate movement Conservation movement Environmental movement Feminist movement Local food movement Peace movement Environmentalism AgrarianismAgricultural economicsEcological economicsEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental movementEnvironmental politics and Green party Bright green environmentalism Car-free movement Climate movement Conservation movement Eco-modernism Ecological modernization Prometheanism Technogaianism Positive environmentalism Deep ecology Anti-consumerism Degrowth movement Anti-globalization movement Alter-globalization movement Global justice movement Anti-nuclear movement Bioregionalism Ecoauthoritarianism Ecocentrism Eco-fascism Green anarchism Anarcho-naturism Anarcho-primitivism Rewilding Communalism Eco-communalism Back-to-the-land movement Democratic confederalism Green municipalism Libertarian municipalism Social ecology Inclusive democracy Neo-Luddism Radical environmentalism Animal rights movement Deep Green Resistance Earth liberation movement Sustainable development Free-market environmentalism Eco-capitalism Sustainable capitalism Georgism Geolibertarianism Green libertarianism Green conservatism Fiscal environmentalism Green liberalism Green politics Eco-feminism Eco-nationalism Green Zionism Green left Eco-socialism Localism Queer ecology Green syndicalism Anti-environmentalism Environmentalism and religion Christian environmentalism Eco-theology Evangelical environmentalism Islamic environmentalism Jewish environmentalism Maori environmentalism Spiritual ecology Four pillars of the Green Party Ecological wisdom Grassroots democracy Nonviolence Pacifism Peace movement Social justice Human rights Civil liberties Social equality Economic egalitarianism Equal opportunity Solidarity Global Greens Charter Consensus democracy Deliberative democracy Direct democracy Participatory democracy Grassroots democracy Bioregional democracy Inclusive Democracy List of environmental issues Ecotheology Environmentalism Green building Green technology Human ecology Political ecology Social ecology Sustainable development Ecofeminism Feminist economics Green economics Eco-capitalism Ecological economics Eco-socialism Ecotax Feminist economics Free-market environmentalism Georgism Geolibertarianism A few issues affect most of the green parties around the world, and can often inhibit global cooperation.