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Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity / David McDermott Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, David McDermott, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy industries--Environmental aspects.
- Energy industries.
- Energy industries--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Slavery--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--History.
- Slavery.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Colonies--Great Britain.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822373360
- 082237336X
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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