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Energy without Conscience - Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Hardcover)
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Energy without Conscience - Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Hardcover)
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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.
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