A People's Green New Deal

The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by
US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the
far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the
current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings
ambiguity: 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 degrowth,
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.