Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
9780822373360
Content:
David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Energy with Conscience -- 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel -- 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment -- Part II. Ordinary Oil -- 3. The Myth of Inevitability -- 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility -- 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822363064
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822363064
Language:
English
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