vironmentalism consists of the Green parties--the general term for a number of political parties throughout the world--of which the West German Green Party, founded in 1979, was the leading early example, though not the first to be formed. The Green parties grew out of a host of 1960s and 1970s ecological and environmentalist groups. The German Green Party, for instance, was formed by the merger of over 200 such small, primarily grass-roots organizations. The radicalism of the Greens, as the members are generally called, is best described as a "self-limiting radicalism" that rejects the utopian commitment of anti-political radical environmentalists and adopts, instead, a reformist stance which, however, combines "organized party structures with support and influence from the peace and ecology movements, including their anarchistic, egalitarian and anti-hierarchical sections" (Papadakis 433). Though the reformist Greens work through the political system much of their activism merits the title radical--at least in the view of much of the public--and
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