LEADER 03293oam 22006014 450 001 9910166649803321 005 20250322110034.0 010 $z9780822363064$b(hardcover$balkaline paper) 010 $z0822363062$b(hardcover$balkaline paper) 010 $z9780822362982$b(paperback$balkaline paper) 010 $z0822362988$b(paperback$balkaline paper) 010 $a9780822373360$b(ebook) 010 $a082237336X$b(ebook) 035 $a(CKB)3710000001083893 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4815439 035 $a971213007 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37189 035 $a(ODN)ODN0011133872 035 $a(Perlego)1466885 035 $a(oapen)doab37189 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001083893 100 $a20170202d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnergy without conscience $eoil, climate change, and complicity /$fDavid McDermott Hughes 210 $aDurham NC$cDuke University Press$d2017 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (209 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a0-8223-6306-2 311 08$a0-8223-7336-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPlantation 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. 330 $a'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. 606 $aEnergy industries$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aEnergy industries$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aSlavery$zTrinidad and Tobago$zTrinidad$xHistory 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$xColonies$zGreat Britain 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$zTrinidad and Tobago$zTrinidad 615 0$aEnergy industries$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aEnergy industries$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade$xColonies 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade 676 $a338.2/72820972983 700 $aHughes$b David McDermott$0904310 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 912 $a9910166649803321 996 $aEnergy without conscience$92021991 997 $aUNINA