Joe Costello on Energy and Democracy

“The greatest organizing force of the Industrial era was fossil fuels. The mass scale burning of fossil fuels resulted in an unprecedented global reorganization of nature, human society, and culture.”

I’m working on the introduction to The Soviet Jew, which I hope I’ll be sending out in the next week or so. In the meantime, I’d like to reprint an essay my friend Joe Costello just wrote about the grip that technologies — and especially technologies that require immense amount of energy to operate, which is basically all the technologies we use right n…