Green anarchism is the convergence of anarchist politics and ecological analysis. It holds that the domination of the natural world and the domination of human beings are not separate problems but aspects of the same structure — and that addressing one without addressing the other leaves the root system intact.
The tradition draws on multiple sources: Kropotkin’s integration of ecology and anarchism, Murray Bookchin’s social ecology (which argues that ecological destruction follows from social hierarchy), the Earth Liberation Front’s direct-action tradition, and Indigenous land defense practices that predate the European anarchist tradition entirely. The relationship between anarchism and ecology is not additive (anarchism + environmentalism) but structural: both identify domination as the problem and its abolition as the response.
Green anarchism connects to total liberation — the position that human, animal, and ecological liberation are facets of the same struggle. It connects to climate justice through the recognition that the climate crisis is produced by the same structures of extraction and colonialism that anarchism opposes. And it connects to Indigenous resurgence through the recognition that Indigenous peoples have practiced sustainable relationships with the land for millennia — not as a romanticized ideal but as actually existing governance systems that colonialism attempted to destroy.