TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,David McDermott
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Energy without Conscience : : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity / 
SN  - 9780822373360
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - Trinite-et-Tobago
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ram
KW  - Petrole
KW  - Industrie et commerce
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Industries energetiques
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Aspect environnemental
KW  - Slavery
KW  - fast
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Energy industries
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Regional and national history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Humanities
KW  - History
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Trinite (Île)
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - Trinidad and Tobago
KW  - Trinidad
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Plantation 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; Open Access
N2  - '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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64034/
ER  -