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.