American Democracy (n.) is a system everyone agrees is broken and nobody agrees is broken in the same place.
American Democracy (n.) is the inalienable right to sit on your own front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?.'
Carbon democracy (n.) is Timothy Mitchell's argument that modern democracy was shaped by the production and flow of fossil fuels.
Carbon democracy (n.) is that the economy and democracy are interwoven with the making, transporting, and use of fossil fuels.