The Resource Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity, David McDermott Hughes
Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity, David McDermott Hughes
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- "[This book] investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. [The author] examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. [The author] 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. [The author] shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. [The author]...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. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet."--
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- eng
- Extent
- x, 191 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Part I. Energy with conscience. Plantation slaves, the first fuel
- How oil missed its utopian moment
- Part II. Ordinary oil The myth of inevitability
- Lakeside, or the petro-pastoral sensibility
- Climate change and the victim slot
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780822363064
- Label
- Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity
- Title
- Energy without conscience
- Title remainder
- oil, climate change, and complicity
- Statement of responsibility
- David McDermott Hughes
- Creator
- z5d_IeAHyX8
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "[This book] investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. [The author] examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. [The author] 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. [The author] shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. [The author]...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. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet."--
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- Hughes, David McDermott
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Energy industries
- Energy industries
- Slavery
- Petroleum industry and trade
- Petroleum industry and trade
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- Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity, David McDermott Hughes
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-181) and index
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- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Energy with conscience. Plantation slaves, the first fuel -- How oil missed its utopian moment -- Part II. Ordinary oil The myth of inevitability -- Lakeside, or the petro-pastoral sensibility -- Climate change and the victim slot -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn950688285
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822363064
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- illustrations, map
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- (OCoLC)950688285
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- Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity, David McDermott Hughes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-181) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Energy with conscience. Plantation slaves, the first fuel -- How oil missed its utopian moment -- Part II. Ordinary oil The myth of inevitability -- Lakeside, or the petro-pastoral sensibility -- Climate change and the victim slot -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn950688285
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822363064
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)950688285
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