Carbon Democracy : Political Power in the Age of Oil, Paperback / softback Book

Carbon Democracy : Political Power in the Age of Oil Paperback / softback

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With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development 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 form of politics.

Oil created a denatured political life the central object of which-the economy-appeared capable of infinite growth.

What followed was 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-fuelled collapse of the ecological order. For the updated edition of this classic title, Timothy Mitchell has written a new preface, reassessing its arguments in the light of recent political events.

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