> There’s often thought to be a negative relationship between oil and democracy. If you have a lot of oil, if you’re a state that produces a lot of oil, you seem to be undemocratic. What I try to show in the book is there’s a much longer and more interesting history of this relationship between oil and democracy, and that it involves us as much as the countries that depend on the production of oil.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/8/from_caspian_sea_to_arctic_to
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> 「カーボン・デモクラシー」　エネルギー供給体制が民主主義の姿を決める
> 第二次大戦後のヨーロッパで、「反民主的」な石油エネルギーへの転換を積極的に推進したのは米国です。戦後の復興を支援したマーシャルプランには石油への切り替えが盛り込まれておりました。目的はもちろん、労働運動の力をそぐことです。なにしろ戦後のヨーロッパは民主化の要求が非常に強く、支配層は全力で左翼の鎮圧にかかりました。左翼の牙城だった炭鉱労働組合はとりわけ目障りだったようです。だから強引に石炭生産をやめさせ、労働運動をくじきたかった。
http://democracynow.jp/editorblog/14-06-13-7917
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"Due to postponement and the element of uncertainty, claims to future revenue are usually acquired at a reduced price."
--Timothy Mitchell, "Infrastructures Work on Time," e-flux Architecture, "New Silk Roads," January 2020

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