Movements demanding action on the climate crisis are growing. The emphasis is on action. Questions of strategy are less clearly defined. But some platforms are exciting discussion, most prominently of degrowth and the Green New Deal.

Degrowth draws on traditions of anarchist and socialist utopian community building (phalanstery). Its pioneers are the back-to-the-landers who work the land, or the city dwellers cultivating urban gardens.

The Green New Deal is a flag around which different projects form. Some businesses and political parties look to state-led infrastructure projects. Labour ...

 

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