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Energy, crisis and world-wide production relations
Abramsky, Kolya
Abramsky, Kolya
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productivity
energy
social market economy
energy
social market economy
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"Changes within the energy sector are accelerating dramatically. A variety of ecological, political, economic and financial factors are converging to ensure that energy production and consumption become central to the global restructuring of social relations in the years ahead. This is true of energy in general and the globally expanding renewable energy sector in particular. The way in which the world’s energy system evolves in the years ahead will be intimately intertwined with different possible ways out of the world financial-economic crisis (which is also increasingly becoming a crisis of legitimacy and political control). [...] The process of building a new energy system based on a greatly expanded use of renewable energies has the potential to make an important contribution to the process of constructing new relations of production, exchange and livelihood that are based on solidarity, diversity and autonomy and are substantially more democratic, egalitarian and ecologically sensitive than those that currently exist. Furthermore, the construction of new social relations along the above lines is also likely to be crucial in avoiding disastrous ‘solutions’ to the financial-economic and political crises. [...]", p. 92
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2009-10
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