{"product_id":"timothy-mitchell-carbon-democracy-2023-paperback","title":"Timothy Mitchell: Carbon Democracy [2023] paperback","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the updated edition of this classic title, Timothy Mitchell has written a new preface, reassessing its arguments in the light of recent political events.","brand":"Mitchell, Timothy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47854046904659,"sku":"9781804292495","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mitchell-timothy-timothy-mitchell-carbon-democracy-2023-paperback-9781804292495-60467534496083.jpg?v=1734586679","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/timothy-mitchell-carbon-democracy-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}