The Solutions Are Already Here - Strategies for Ecological Revolution From Below

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realise their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of the Green New Deal.Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists in Venezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalised to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Gelderloos, Gelderloos Peter
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2022
• EAN: 9780745345116
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4511-6
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, Science / Environmental Science, Pollution control, Pollution and threats to the environment, Anarchism, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism