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Max Ajl鈥檚聽A People鈥檚 Green New Deal聽intervenes in current debates regarding green planning, green future, green stimuli, and eco-socialism. It surveys a wide range of existing literature on the ecological and social crisis, ranging from ruling-class 鈥済reat transitions,鈥� to eco-modernist聽elixirs聽of聽the聽right and聽the聽left which bank on technological solutions to today鈥檚 social and ecological problems. It then considers and聽critiques an array of liberal, left-liberal, and social democratic proposals, some of them going under the eco-socialist moniker, and shows how they rest on continued exploitation and primitive accumulation of the periphery.听

A People鈥檚 Green New Deal contributions lie in, first, using frameworks of dependency theory, accumulation on a world scale, and ecologically uneven exchange to illuminate the costs and consequences of distinct approaches to the climate crisis, left and right. Second, the book鈥檚 emphasis on agriculture, land use, and agro-ecology makes it unique amongst books on the Green New Deal and parallel debates. Its emphasis on decolonization, national sovereignty, anti-imperialism, and climate debt repayments from the North to the South is a third contribution. A fourth is how it deals with technology. 

This review forum assesses the contribution of聽A People鈥檚 Green New Deal.听Sakshi 蝉颈迟耻补迟别蝉听APGND聽in terms of a counter-epistemology to Eurocentric and empire-blind resolutions, if not really solutions, to the social and ecological crises to which mainstream Green New Deals are addressed.听Sheetal Chhabria 补蝉蝉别蝉蝉别蝉听APGND鈥檚 contribution to thinking on a planetary scale about appropriate planning for a just transition, while criticizing the book鈥檚 uncritical embrace of certain Indian nationalist tropes. G眉ney I艧谋kara raises questions regarding political agency and organization, the role of national-level planning in any form of national-level green transition, and how to approach anti-imperialism on a world scale.听聽

Read the contributions:

• A People鈥檚 Green New Deal 鈥� An Exercise in Just Knowledge Production, by Sakshi
• Beyond Green Restoration: An Eco-Socialist GND, by G眉ney I艧谋kara
• Debunking the 鈥淓co-Fortress Nationalism鈥� of the AOC/Markey Green New Deal, by Sheetal Chhabria