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Author Hughes, David McDermott, author.

Title Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity / David McDermott Hughes
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
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
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Energy industries -- Environmental aspects
Energy industries -- Moral and ethical aspects
Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History
Petroleum industry and trade -- Great Britain -- Colonies
Petroleum industry and trade -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
History of the Americas.
History.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Energy industries -- Environmental aspects
Energy industries -- Moral and ethical aspects
Petroleum industry and trade
Slavery
Industries énergétiques -- Aspect environnemental.
Industries énergétiques -- Aspect moral.
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Trinité-et-Tobago.
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Colonies -- Grande-Bretagne.
Esclavage -- Trinité-et-Tobago -- Histoire.
Great Britain
Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016037765
ISBN 9780822373360
082237336X