Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity
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Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity
Duke University Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index
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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. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet.
目次
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Energy with Conscience
1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel 29
2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment 41
Part II. Ordinary Oil
3. The Myth of Inevitability 65
4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility 95
5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot 120
Conclusion 141
Notes 153
References 165
Index 183
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