Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity /

Hughes, David McDermott,

Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and complicity / David McDermott Hughes. - 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780822373360 (e-book)


Energy industries--Environmental aspects.
Energy industries--Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery--History.--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad
Petroleum industry and trade--Colonies--Great Britain.
Petroleum industry and trade--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.


Electronic books.

HD9502.T72 / H84 2017

338.2/72820972983