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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112268 _d;18/05/2018
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100			_aDavid McDermott Hughes
245			_aEnergy without conscience _b : oil, climate change, and complicity _c/David McDermott Hughes
260			_aDurham _b: Duke University Press _c, 2017.
300			_ax, 191 pages _c;22 cm.
505			_a 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.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_a Social sciences
655			_aEconomics _b Production
700			_aDavid McDermott Hughes.
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