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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Hughes, David McDermott
Titre(s) : Energy without conscience [Texte imprimé] : oil, climate change, and complicity / David McDermott Hughes
Publication : Durham : Duke University press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 191 pages) ; 23 cm
Comprend : 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
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
'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
Sujet(s) : Industries énergétiques -- Environnement
Industries énergétiques -- Aspect moral
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Colonies -- Grande-Bretagne
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Trinité-et-Tobago
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780822373360. - ISBN 082237336X. - ISBN 9780822363064 (erroné). - ISBN 0822363062 (erroné). - ISBN 9780822362982 (erroné). - ISBN 0822362988 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45230891g
Notice n° :
FRBNF45230891
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