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    A People's Green New Deal

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    ISBN: 9780745341750
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    AuthorAjl, Max
    Pub Date20/05/2021
    BindingPaperback
    Pages224
    Publisher: PLUTO PRESS LTD
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    An urgent demand for a People's Green New Deal, foregrounding global agricultural transformation and climate justice for the Global South

    '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.