National Environmentalist Movement

The National Environmentalist Movement (NEM) is part of a wider political movement which is popping up all across Vaeria in response to recent developments in space exploration and technology. Various local grass-root ecologist movements banded together and gathered in 2211 in Arcadié to found the National Ecologist Movement. The NEM adheres to a specific interpretation of bright green environmentalism with elements of eco-nationalism. The Movement aims to bring prosperity in an ecologically sustainable way. NEM opposes unrestricted expansion into space, as they believe that 1) such an expansion would strain Vaeria’s own environment and 2) unrestricted expansion would harm extraterrestrial ecologies. At the same time, the Movement manifest nature as an entity outside culture and as an inherent part of the Vaerian nation which must be protected.