HueyLong
Banned
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have a semi-large, coherent political grouping (preferably organized in parties, but something like the Fabian society would work) analogous to modern Greens arise in the United States or Europe before 1900.
You may think its impossible, but look at some of the trends we saw. The rise of Romanticism and its love of nature. The scientific conservation movement. The beginnings of some of the disastrous industrial practices.
Some of my thoughts on the idea:
Romanticism will be at the core, I think. Mystics and nature-as-god type people. Mainly because they will be more likely to follow a far from victory party or movement, at least more than the rational conservationists of the time.
Zero waste makes sense as a business practice- while not entirely feasible this early, it should be noted that there were no or limited plastics (harder to recycle) and that glass and paper could be recycled easily during the era (But no one bothered to on a large scale)
These Greens may be more deserving of a Luddite title than modern Greens- efforts may be made to revert to water power in the United States, at the least, at a time when it was becoming inefficient. But then, they may be more progressive, as the environmental effects of dams and the like were not yet known or popularized. Certainly going to oppose coal power, may support cleaner burning petroleum in an almost-ironic twist.
The movement will likely have ties with "back-to-the-land" movements of the period- they may have similar goals. The various scouting movements could make a good youth wing. Programs similar to the CCC's tree planting may be likely.
So, while I may have some idea of how their ideas will shape up, I have little idea of how to get those ideas to coalesce and form a grouping. And thus is your challenge.
Go.
You may think its impossible, but look at some of the trends we saw. The rise of Romanticism and its love of nature. The scientific conservation movement. The beginnings of some of the disastrous industrial practices.
Some of my thoughts on the idea:
Romanticism will be at the core, I think. Mystics and nature-as-god type people. Mainly because they will be more likely to follow a far from victory party or movement, at least more than the rational conservationists of the time.
Zero waste makes sense as a business practice- while not entirely feasible this early, it should be noted that there were no or limited plastics (harder to recycle) and that glass and paper could be recycled easily during the era (But no one bothered to on a large scale)
These Greens may be more deserving of a Luddite title than modern Greens- efforts may be made to revert to water power in the United States, at the least, at a time when it was becoming inefficient. But then, they may be more progressive, as the environmental effects of dams and the like were not yet known or popularized. Certainly going to oppose coal power, may support cleaner burning petroleum in an almost-ironic twist.
The movement will likely have ties with "back-to-the-land" movements of the period- they may have similar goals. The various scouting movements could make a good youth wing. Programs similar to the CCC's tree planting may be likely.
So, while I may have some idea of how their ideas will shape up, I have little idea of how to get those ideas to coalesce and form a grouping. And thus is your challenge.
Go.