Human rights and environmental issues are and must be inextricably linked.
The ecological movements and Green parties must work towards advancing human rights in a far more radical way than has been the case. There is much to learn from indigenous societies, which have a harmonious relationship with land and nature, and simple lifestyles which offer models of what alternative and ecological societies could look like…

Petra Kelly, the German green activist, was a contributor to Resurgence as the Cold War ended. This quotation is taken from an article published in Issue 149, ...

 

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