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Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

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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 using fossil fuels odd and due to this fact exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world’s oldest petro-state, having drilled the first ceaselessly 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 up to date oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of every. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it’s accepted as an odd a part of on a regular basis life. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, are we able to stem the damage being done to the planet.

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