Exploring Green ideology

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Background: My parents are conservative, so am I, but now I am wondering about exploring the ideology territory of the Green Party in the USA. I may give their ideas a chance, but does a conservative becoming green make any sense?

I don't know much about he Green Party, but you don't have to stop being conservative to care about the environment. I am generally conservative, but my position is just to use the earth as it was meant to be used

mean by whom and for what end?

It depends on what you mean. It depends on the weightings you put on variables. Conservatives generally end up opposing environmentalists, as conservatives disfavor ecological regulations and regulatory bodies due to how they cost businesses resources and increase the size/power of government. However, one can believe certain conservative things and certain environmentalist things.

Also, anybody can change their beliefs to anything else. A fascist can become an anarchist if they please. The real question is just what ideology makes the best sense of the data about how the world works.

I didn't dig too deep into this yet, but I have evaluated some of the core concepts of conservative thought and here's what I found. Do I really believe in the individual to self-regulate? Do I really believe in lower taxes at the expense of welfare and health? Do I really believe in restricting freedoms in certain areas? After evaluating these questions with my gut intuition, I can say that I don't think so. I was really going along with what my parents taught me about politics. I don't even think under those terms I can fit under libertarian anymore.

On the other hand, I guess you can say I am a reactionary in some areas. I'm a little more conservative about race mixing, but I still believe that people should be free to intermix. There are some more examples.

I would say the biggest problem with the Green Party is that many of their policies are either unrealistic or have already been tried in other countries and failed miserably.