Dark Green (Ideology)

Dark Green is the official ideology of the Tukarese Dark Green Party. It was created by the Tukarese philosopher Francisco Salazar de Oliveira Garcia

Dark Green and Light Green
According to Francisco Salazar de Oliveira Garcia, there are two main divisions for Green politics: Light and Dark. Light Green is the most common version of Environmentalism, usually found on left-of-center Green parties. Light Greens believe that people are naturally good but corrupted by society (the "noble savage" theory). So, Light Greens feel that, through activist campaigns and awareness raising, humans would act in a more ecologically friendly way. Since they don't believe human is naturally evil, they also tends to support a more activist, interventionist government, to altruistic regulate economic activity in name of ecological preservation or fairness. However, on moral issues Light Greens tend to be somewhat lax, opposing discipline or harsh police actions, viewing humans as "lovely children who only needs love to be good".

Dark Green, on opposite, hold a pessimistic view of human nature, typical of conservatives and classical liberals, which see humans as an selfish creature ("the man is the wolf of man"), instead of a naturally good being corrupted by society. So, instead of relying on activism and awareness raising, as Light Green, Dark Greens support the usage of economic incentives, as carbon tax to reduce pollution or technological advancements to make eco-friendly products cheaper and so more advantageous to the consumers. Since Dark Greens don't think humans are naturally altruistic, they don't trust big government, believing that when in charge politicians will act selfish, using governmental power to their own benefit instead of the common good. So, Dark Greens support both a small government and decentralization, to reduce the extent of politicians power over society. Many Dark Greens also shun political correctness as a sentimentalist restriction on policies needed to save nature, as for example natality control.

Dark Greens include, among others, green conservatives and conservationists who see the conservation of nature as a conservative cause, free market environmentalists who prefer market-based solutions to environmental problems, technogaianists who believe technological advance will improve environment, antinatalists who see overpopulation as the biggest threat to nature, and supporters of nuclear power as a way to generate large amounts of energy without contributing to global warming.