The Solutions are Already Here - Moé for Solarpunk Books

Paperback, 256 pages

Published by Pluto Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7453-4511-6

(1 review)

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 realise 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 marginalised to fight borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win a dignified survival.

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Talya (she/her) reviewed The Solutions are Already Here by Peter Gelderloos

the most depressing hopeful book i've ever read

5 stars

it's not fair to give this book 5 stars, because i've given other books 5 stars in the past, and they pale in comparison. i've had my mind blown multiple times every chapter, and there's five of them. it's clear a lot of care was put into this book, and that care paid off. this book is at once depressing, because the solutions are already here, and encouraging, because the solutions are already here. and if that's not the correct way to address the human condition, i don't know what is. at the end of this book, i am left with the taste of the vision in the final chapter, feeling like i've been awoken from the sweetest of dreams - at once sad to find it was but a dream, and happy to have remembered it. now all i have is to wait for the day this dream becomes …

it's not fair to give this book 5 stars, because i've given other books 5 stars in the past, and they pale in comparison. i've had my mind blown multiple times every chapter, and there's five of them. it's clear a lot of care was put into this book, and that care paid off. this book is at once depressing, because the solutions are already here, and encouraging, because the solutions are already here. and if that's not the correct way to address the human condition, i don't know what is. at the end of this book, i am left with the taste of the vision in the final chapter, feeling like i've been awoken from the sweetest of dreams - at once sad to find it was but a dream, and happy to have remembered it. now all i have is to wait for the day this dream becomes reality.