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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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. |
| Summary |
'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. |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Language |
In English. |
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Esclavage -- Trinite-et-Tobago -- Histoire. |
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Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Colonies -- Grande-Bretagne. |
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Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Trinite-et-Tobago. |
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Industries energetiques -- Aspect moral. |
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Industries energetiques -- Aspect environnemental. |
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Slavery. |
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Petroleum industry and trade. |
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Energy industries -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Energy industries -- Environmental aspects. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
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Regional and national history. |
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Humanities. |
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History. |
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History of the Americas. |
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Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Trinite-et-Tobago -- Trinite (Île) |
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Petrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies. |
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Industries energetiques -- Aspect moral. |
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Industries energetiques -- Aspect de l'environnement. |
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad.
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Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. |
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Great Britain -- Colonies.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History.
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History. |
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Energy industries -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Energy industries. |
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Energy industries -- Environmental aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books. .
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781478091059 |
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9780822362982 |
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9780822363064 |
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9780822373360 |
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082237336X |
