TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes, David McDermott
AB  - '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.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373360
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625276
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45673
KW  - History
KW  - Climate change (general concept)
KW  - Hydrocarbon
KW  - Petroleum
KW  - Port of Spain
KW  - Trinidad
KW  - Trinidad and Tobago
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45673/3/625276.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31758/3/625276.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35529
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9780822373360
TI  - Energy without Conscience : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
ER  - 
