EPISODE · Jan 11, 2025 · 2H 14M
The Solutions are Already Here, Chapter One, A Wide-Angle View
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The book can be read at https://archive.org/details/TheSolutionsareAlreadyHere/page/n9/mode/2up And purchased at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/ 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 realize 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 marginalized to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.
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The book can be read at https://archive.org/details/TheSolutionsareAlreadyHere/page/n9/mode/2upAnd purchased at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/ Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliverenvironmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that internationalgovernmental responses to the climate emergency are structurallyincapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the world,grassroots networks of local communities are working to realize theirvisions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetarydestruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects promoted bygreenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and theneocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of theGreen New Deal. Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty activists inVenezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their lands in Braziland anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in Indonesia, looking atthe battles that have cancelled airports, stopped pipelines, andhelped the most marginalized to fight borders and environmentalracism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.
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