What about "eco-nationalist" in the sense that nation states make sustainability models a principal feature of their policies? This approach is not a nazi idea, as so many seem to think it is. It has a wide range of supporters and is an idea that many people the world over would support in principle.
Surely if a sovereign nation state is first and foremost made responsible for its population growth, its utilization of raw materials, its trade in raw materials and its manufacturing and export as well as its utilization of the environment then many of the problems encountered when poorer countries are unfairly matched against so-called rich ones would disappear.
Prosperity is directly linked to capability, or should be. Many "developing" countries are not developing but sliding back into stone age like conditions topped with foreign aid sustained oligarchies. Would green nationalism not be better for these, instead of the constant handout syndrome attached to the concomitant guilt trip foisted on the developed nations?
Much of the world's poverty and inequality is the result of a lack of attention to people's needs and environmental capability in terms of meeting these needs. Green nationalism tends to imply region specific responsibility rather than solutions dreamed up in a big building that looks like an upended coffin somewhere far away from the trouble spots.
It would transform extant international economic policies and so isn't popular. People find it easier to accuse individuals of racism rather than to look at the potential region specific survival strategies transformed into economic and political policies might deliver.
For some countries, this kind of sustainability model could literally save nations from catastrophe and help build new bases on more independent platforms that might have the potential to make them more competitive instead of the present situation where many poor countries are actually being suffocated by costs and logistics problems vis a vis their crop production and manufacturing.
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