'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal' - Jason Hickel The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But 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 decommodification, working-class power, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pluto Press
ISBN-13
9780745341750
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20049034059
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Natural Science
Author
Max Ajl
Publication Name
A People's Green New Deal
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Geography & Geosciences, Politics
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
254g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Max Ajl
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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