In the English language, few critics have tackled this issue as well as Max Ajl, whose 2021 book, A People’s Green New Deal, refuses to shy away from the global nature of the questions at hand. “Much of left-liberal climate talk is based on administering rather than eliminating capitalism,” he writes, accurately, “and as a result is built on a seldom acknowledged foundation of assumptions regarding the global distribution of wealth and consumption, and the institutions with which it is tied, in terms of why emissions are produced and their consequences, which are intimately related to which lives matter and which lives do not.”51 What good is a dense electric vehicle charging network in Poughkeepsie to Grigris, the Chadian dancer turned petrol smuggler? Freezing the consumption of everyone in the world at current levels preserves global inequality, leaving some people cruising in EVs and some people burning wood as cooking fuel.