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kobvindex_HPB956775679
Format:
1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020.
ISBN:
9780822373360
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082237336X
Content:
'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.
Note:
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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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hughes, David McDermott. Energy without conscience. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780822363064
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
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California Digital Library
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HathiTrust Digital Library
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ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373360
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