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Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity /

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"[This book] investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. [The author] examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. [The author] centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldes...

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Main Author: Hughes, David McDermott (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2017]
Edition:[Open access version].
Subjects:
Energy industries > Environmental aspects.
Energy industries > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Great Britain > Colonies.
Petroleum industry and trade > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad.
Industries énergétiques > Aspect de l'environnement.
Industries énergétiques > Aspect moral.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Trinité-et-Tobago > Trinité (Île)
Energy industries > Environmental aspects
Energy industries > Moral and ethical aspects
Petroleum industry and trade
Slavery
Great Britain
Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad
Industries énergétiques > Aspect environnemental.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Trinité-et-Tobago.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Colonies > Grande-Bretagne.
Esclavage > Trinité-et-Tobago > Histoire.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Energy with conscience. Plantation slaves, the first fuel
  • How oil missed its utopian moment
  • Part II. Ordinary oil. The myth of inevitability
  • Lakeside, or the petro-pastoral sensibility
  • Climate change and the victim slot
  • Conclusion.