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oapen-20.500.12657-456722023-06-05T13:09:02Z Energy without Conscience Hughes, David McDermott 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 '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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:48:28Z 2020-04-01T13:48:28Z 2017 book 625276 9780822373360 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45672 eng application/pdf n/a 625276.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373360 10.1215/9780822373360 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822373360 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100689 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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'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.
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