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1. Cover

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2017

2. Index

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2017

3. Notes

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2017

4. References

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2017

14. Energy without Conscience : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

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Hughes, David McDermott

Subjects
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Abstract

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.

Published
2017

17. Abbreviations

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

18. Cover

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

19. Preface

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

33. Notes

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

34. Glossary

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

35. Index

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Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

36. References

Author

Hughes, David McDermott

Published
2008

44. Energy without Conscience

Author

Hughes, David McDermott

Subjects
History, Climate change (general concept), Hydrocarbon, Petroleum, Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas
Abstract

'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.

Published
2017
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