Ecological awarenes and ecological action are socio-psychological categories of growing political significance. As such they have come for increasing scientific interest. The terms have yet to be strictly defined and various approaches have been taken to providing an explanation of them, from vantages as different as perception psychology and action theory. The results have been equally heterogeneous, ranging form an "increased level of (political) activity" to "effects of neurotic rigidity".

As socially relevant factors, ecological awareness and action stem from the so-caled GREEN movement which had its roots to the political climate of the late sixties. The initial motivation there was political, with specific reference to social policy and an "eclogising" of economic processes. 25 years later today's ecologically oriented generation places its activities on a different footing. The operative concepts for these new fundamentalist activists are peace, justice and a concern for the Creation. Concomitant phenomena are social entropy, loss of an established code of moral values and a pietistic attitude to life. Political motivation is conspicious by its absence.

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