The Solutions are Already Here, Chapter 04, Verstatile Strategies


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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.