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Energy, crisis and world-wide production relations Kolya Abramsky Changes within the energy sector are accelerating dramatically. A variety of ecological, political, economic and fi nancial 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 diff erent possible ways out of the world fi nancial-economic crisis (which is also increasingly becoming a crisis of legitimacy and political control). The multiple intersecting and mutually reinforcing crises starkly pose the need to construct new world-wide relations of production and exchange that are substantially more decentralised, participatory and egalitarian than the relations that currently exist. However, climate change and peak oil require a massive and rapid reduction in CO 2 emissions and energy use, and hence also a fundamental change in how humans interact with nature and the ecology they are a part of. The process of building a new energy system based on a greatly expanded use of re- 92 Critical Currents no. 6 Kolya Abramsky has worked over the last 10 years with a wide range of grassroots social and environmental organisations from around the world within diff erent anti-capitalist networking processes. He has just completed an edited volume on energy- related struggles entitled, Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post- Petrol World, and is currently preparing a global conference, to take place in late 2011, on anti-capitalist transition processes towards a new energy system. newable 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 fi nancial-economic and political crises.
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