A people's Green New Deal /
Ajl, Max,
A people's Green New Deal / max Ajl. - London : Pluto Press, 2021. ©2021 - 1 online resource (vi, 215 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781786807052 178680705X 9781786807069 1786807068 9781786807076 1786807076
020123581 Uk
Green New Deal.
Environmental policy--United States.
Environmentalism--United States.
Economic policy--Environmental aspects--United States.
Environmental justice.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Sustainable Agriculture.
Green New Deal.
Environmentalism.
Economic policy--Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
Environmental policy.
United States.
Electronic books.
GE197 / .A35 2021eb
A people's Green New Deal / max Ajl. - London : Pluto Press, 2021. ©2021 - 1 online resource (vi, 215 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781786807052 178680705X 9781786807069 1786807068 9781786807076 1786807076
020123581 Uk
Green New Deal.
Environmental policy--United States.
Environmentalism--United States.
Economic policy--Environmental aspects--United States.
Environmental justice.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Sustainable Agriculture.
Green New Deal.
Environmentalism.
Economic policy--Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
Environmental policy.
United States.
Electronic books.
GE197 / .A35 2021eb