The Solutions are Already Here, Chapter 5, a Truly Different Future
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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.