The Solutions are Already Here

Peter Gelderloos is a writer and social movement participant. He is the author of The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below, How Nonviolence Protects the State, Anarchy Works, The Failure of Non-Violence, and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. He has contributed chapters to anthologies Keywords for Radicals and Riots and Militant Occupations. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Greek and Serbo-Croat.

'Guides us beyond the greenwashing of the arsonist state, towards the regenerative agency of local communities. Gelderloos demonstrates how we have the means at hand to extinguish the blaze and reset our wayward course towards a more livable and just planet for all'

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Wide-Angle View The Bare Bones: The Situation Now and Our Likely Futures In the Biosphere Everything Is Connected: The Ecological Crisis beyond Carbon Hoard the Profit, Share the Blame: The Anthropocene Reconsidered 2. Foxes Building Henhouses Government Promises and Market Solutions: The Profitable Failings of Paris, the NGOs, and Climate Capitalism Religions of Consumption: Ecocide and Entitlement Prison Cells and Death Squads: The Real First Response to Climate Change 3. The Solutions Are Already Here We Have Stopped Pipelines, Airports, Highways, and Mines: The Victories that Add Up Food Sovereignty and Ecological Healing: Finding Our Place in a Damaged Ecology Fighting Where We Live: From Cities to Habitats 4. Versatile Strategies A Thousand Worlds Struggling to Be Born: Ecosystems of Revolt False Pragmatisms: Strategies of Desperation Ecological Revolution: The Best Strategy in Success or Failure 5. A Truly Different Future Ecological Imaginations: Plotting a Total Transformation of Human Existence Justice and Reconciliation: Making Sure Mass Murder Doesn’t Pay Apocalyptic Utopias Now: Present Steps in the Networking of Local and Global Spaces Notes Index