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Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny
Fábio Zuker
Once again, we find ourselves facing the fallout of the democracy-led energy-supply model developed in nineteenth-century England, in which vast tracts of land were destroyed, subjected to violence, processes of degradation, and excessive toxicity in the name of energy production, whether in the form of fossil fuels or grain with a high protein content. The Western model of democracy has created sacrificial landscapes where both concepts—landscapes and democracy alike—may be sacrificed to wildfire.
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 15, 2023
Category
Latin America, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Authoritarianism, Climate change