Environmental movement was hijacked by the political left, and at the same time the berlin wall came down, communism ended andunis a lot of peace-necks, wo were basically anti-american and leftists in their thoughts moved into the movement bringing their neomarksism with them and they learned to tuesday in a general way that has more to do with anti-can tism than anything with ecology. patrick moore left green piece in 1986. i left for two reasons. one was the larger issue i wanted to get out of pure confrontation politics, justnfro telling people what they should stop doing, doing, and start tok with peopleio to findns solutioi for sustain ability and the environment. when the environmental movement became so strongly politsized left against right, it was time for me to leave. but it wasn t just groups that began pushing theirpush agendas.ical it really got going