This is a global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world - food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation - scholar and activist Ashley Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage.
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