These two goals are needed to ensure that our gains do not get rolled back by the owning class, just like the New Deal was systematically torn apart by the those same. In addition to bringing democracy into the worlplace, there needs to be the complete dissolution of the existing state and corporate hierarchies. Until we have democratic control over our workplaces, and the surplus of our labor we won't end exploitation. If it was implemented it would without a doubt be a massive improvement over the current state of the world, but it doesn't quite get to the root of the issue Capitalism. To close the divide, Hickel proposes dramatic action rooted in real justice: abolishing debt burdens in the global South, democratizing the institutions of global governance, and rolling out an international minimum wage, among many other vital steps. His global scale Enhanced Keynesian policies don't do this, and can't do it. He's correct in stating that it is an unsustainable waste of time, and resources to keep trying to plug the fire hose of poverty, and suffering by shoving a cork in the spout, but as a species we need to focus our efforts working towards solutions that shut the hose off. The only minor issue that I have with the book is that his proposed solutions don't go far enough and actually answer the thesis that he sets out early on in book. It also reinforced some of my beliefs about how economics, politics, and power structures should function namely that they need profound structural changes if we are to survive climate change. I learned something new with every chapter and so much more about things that I thought I was well informed about. It methodically breaks down the myriad of 'common knowledge' assumptions about Capitalism, trade, debt, sovereignty, and both the political and economic power structures that perpetuate human suffering on a mass scale. This book is one of the most important books written so far in the 21st century.

The divide jason hickel