TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Timothy
TI  - CARBON DEMOCRACY: Political Power in the Age of Oil / 
SN  - 9781804292495
U1  - 320.6 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
PB  - Verso Books
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Carbon dioxide mitigation
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Western countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy.

Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abund
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