Columbia Professor Timothy Mitchell on the politics of carbon, oil, labor and the sea.

[@gfarrell80]

"Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil" was one of the more powerful, brilliant, and illuminating books on politics and 19th/20th century history I've ever read. Fantastic, and this is a wonderfully edited short summary.

[@murainaluqman2641]

Very lucid explanation on how energy has come to create democracy and simultaneously, delimited it. The video is very useful for my course on Diversity and Identities herein at UCT upon my reading of Mitchell (2009). Carbon democracy. Outstanding!

[@sandeepvk]

Dr Timothy Mitchell has presented a very novel concept of Oil producing countries being more autocratic in nature and coal producing nations being more democratic, however I am trying to wrap my head around some peculiar cases here. Norway is a major oil producing nation yet one can hardly say it is not democratic, on the other hand China is mostly reliant on coal yet it is hardly a democracy. How do you reconcile this lacuna ?

[@kalebnbrown]

That makes sense.