Energy Without Conscience

2017·7.3 MB·English

by  Hughes, David McDermott, author

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ENERGY WITHOUT CONSCIENCE

ENERGY WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
David McDermott Hughes
duke university press Durham and London 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hughes, David McDermott, author.
Title: Energy without conscience : oil, climate change, and
complicity / David McDermott Hughes.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2016035965 (print) | lccn 2016037765 (ebook)
isbn 9780822363064 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 9780822362982 (pbk.: alk. paper)
isbn 9780822373360 (e-book)
Subjects: lcsh: 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.
Classification: lcc HD9502.T72 H84 2017 (print) | lcc HD9502.T72
(ebook) | DDC 338.2/72820972983—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/201603596s
Cover credit: Close-up of pitch at the world's largest natural pitch lake,
Trinidad, 2007. Photo © Robert Harding.
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