Summary of Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell

Okay, here's the promised attempt at a summary of Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy, a very interesting book about energy, economics and politics.

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Summary of Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm

As a complement to Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy, here is an attempt to summarize Andreas Malm's Fossil Capital. Mitchell does not dwell much on how fossil fuels first took off, which is Malm's focus for the first half of the book.

( Spoiler: it's capitalism's fault. )