Energy without Conscience : Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity /

'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, w...

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Main Author: Hughes, David McDermott (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.