How oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis
Timothy Mitchell teaches at Columbia University. His books include Colonising Egypt, Rule of Experts, and Carbon Democracy.
A challenging, sophisticated, and important book.
*Foreign Policy*
Carbon Democracy is a sweeping overview of the relationship between
fossil fuels and political institutions from the industrial
revolution to the Arab Spring, which adds layers of depth and
complexity to the accounts of how resource wealth and economic
development are linked.
*Financial Times*
This study of the basis of modern democracy over the past century
connects oil-producing states of the Middle East with industrial
democracies of the West. Mitchell argues that carbon democracy in
the West has been based on the assumption that unlimited oil will
produce endless economic growth, and he concludes that this model
cannot survive the exhaustion of these fuels and associated climate
change. Tim Mitchell has written a remarkable book that deserves a
wide audience.
*Mahmood Mamdani, author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim*
It's a book that tackles a really big subject, in a sweeping but
readable fashion, and after reading it, it's hard to imagine
thinking about political power the same way again ... This book
utterly blew me away.
*Naked Capitalism*
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