Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

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Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It incessantly looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. On this magisterial study, Timothy Mitchell rethinks the history of energy, bringing into his clutch as he does so environmental politics, the struggle for democracy, and the place of the Middle East within the up to date world. 

With the upward thrust of coal power, the producers who oversaw its production acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new type of politics. Oil created a denatured political life whose central object – the economy – gave the impression able to infinite growth. What followed was once a Western democracy dependent on an undemocratic Middle East. We now live with the consequences: an impoverished political practice, incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy – namely, the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fueled collapse of the ecological order.

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