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No, the next wave of extremists won't be greens

Jamie Bartlett lumps those saving lives together with those taking them.

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Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL Pipeline protest photos by Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Sometimes, the best way to get a picture of an ideology is by looking at where its adherents draw their boundaries.

In that context, Jamie Bartlett’s recent piece in Foreign Policy – “The next wave of extremists will be green” provides some very helpful context in allowing us to understand the dogma of followers of what Anthony Barnett calls “the CBCs” – that is, Clinton, Bush, Blair, Brown, Cameron, Clinton.