{"product_id":"carbon-democracy","title":"Carbon Democracy","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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57394139496830,"sku":"NW9781804292495","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781804292495.jpg?v=1778678564","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/carbon-democracy","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}