01912nam a22002177a 4500 20180601110223.0 180601b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780822362982 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 ;112268 ;18/05/2018 338.27282 HUG David McDermott Hughes Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity /David McDermott Hughes Durham : Duke University Press , 2017. x, 191 pages ;22 cm. 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. 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. Social sciences Economics Production David McDermott Hughes. BOOK 49456 49456 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2018-06-01 1611.00 3 2 338.27282 HUG 25170 2026-11-04 13:14:59 2026-09-20 2018-06-01 BOOK