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. The spring of 2019 was the season of failed monsoons in Chennai, its reservoirs meters from desiccation. Climate apocalypse is on everyone’s mind. Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal - Jason Hickel The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into. It then elaborates a possible People’s Green New Deal, a revolutionary transformation focused on state sovereignty, climate debt, auto-centered development, and agriculture. 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. Max Ajl The Green New Deal (GND), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s draft legislation to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions, was literally 2019’s talk of the town. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. 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. Within the past years, the Green New Deal (GND) became the common language for Northern climate politics, offering a seeming exit path from Northern social and ecological crises while erasing an ol.

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. A People’s Green New Deal Max Ajl 4.

It has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. Corresponding author: Max Ajl, Wageningen University & Research, Rural Sociology Group, 6700 EW. The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, Tunisia.

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