Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hughes, David McDermott, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press 2017.
Materias:
Energy industries > Environmental aspects.
Energy industries > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Colonies > Great Britain.
Petroleum industry and trade > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426084306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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