Historically, Green parties have been unpopular worldwide gaining little support from the public. Both the United States and European Green parties continue to have little to no representation in the government, even though a great portion of the population believe environmental issues are important. These parties try to introduce stronger environmental policies into their government, yet fail due to low voter response. The answer in fixing this disconnect lies in how we talk about environmental issues and how political parties address environmentalism.
In order for Green Parties to gain support and be able to get involved in the national politics, they need to change their approach to addressing environmental issues. Green parties should maintain a position that is not so environmentally extreme, such as deep ecology, that is deters voters away. Green parties need to find the right position that will attract the most voters. Additionally, these parties must try to expand their particularistic tendencies as much as possible to widen their voter base. By weaving their environmentalist
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Green parties continuously state that environmental protection is not a left or right issue. Therefore, I believe the answer is separating environmentalism from political ideology and having the major political parties incorporate environmentalism into their platform whichever wat they see it fit best. Connecting environmentalism to specific ideologies can quickly end the dialog to advance environmentalism. For example, here in the U.S. when we call republicans climate deniers, anti – science, or anti – environmentalist, we get nowhere in the conversation to further and strengthen environmental policies. If we integrate environmentalism into all political parties, in various ways, we then have policies with environmentalism at its base no matter who we vote