Energy without conscience: oil, climate change, and complicity
In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technic…
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- Full title :Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity / David McDermott Hughes.
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In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technicians, and managers, he draws parallels between Trinidad's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave labor energy economy and its contemporary oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (209 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822373360, 082237336X
- oclc:on1295855374
- LC Classification:HD9502.T72
- Dewey Decimal:338.2/72820972983
Table of Contents
Plantation slaves, the first fuel -- How oil missed its utopian moment -- The myth of inevitability -- Lakeside, or the petro-pastoral sensibility -- Climate change and the victim slot.
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