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A people's Green New Deal / Max Ajl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ajl, Max, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green New Deal.
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Economic policy--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Environmentalism--United States.
- Environmentalism.
- Economic policy--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Economic policy.
- Environmental justice.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 215 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I CAPITALIST GREEN TRANSITIONS
- 1. Great Transition - or Fortress Eco-Nationalism?
- 2. Change Without Change: Eco-Modernism
- 3. Energy Use, Degrowth, and the Green New Deal
- 4. Green Social Democracy or Eco-Socialism?
- pt. II A PEOPLE'S GREEN NEW DEAL
- 5. The World We Wish to See
- 6. A Planet of Fields
- 7. Green Anti-Imperialism and the National Question.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780745341743
- 0745341748
- 0745341756
- 9780745341750
- OCLC:
- 1235760864
- Publisher Number:
- 99987674538
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