2. Alongside the atom splitters, the gene choppers and cultural flatteners are those other slavish followers of scientific fashion -- the economists and politicians who, having broken economies and societies into their component parts, are now staring dismally at the bits wondering how to reassemble them. Much of the problems with the Greens, themselves often unreconstructed deconstructionists, is to discover than reconstruction is harder than deconstruction. They have been unable to move beyond whatever single issue they favour, leading to conflicts that have chased away those committed to the larger project of constructing a society that is truly sustainable.