Energy without Conscience
'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 th...
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| description | '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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-371892025-07-31T13:03:11Z Energy without Conscience Hughes, David McDermott History Climate change (general concept) Hydrocarbon Petroleum Port of Spain Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas '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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:48:28Z 2017 book 625276 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45672 9780822373360 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37189 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45673/3/625276.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373360 10.1215/9780822373360 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched 9780822373360 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Durham NC open access |
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