Energy Without Conscience
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Energy Without Conscience
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Author : David McDermott Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-17
Energy Without Conscience written by David McDermott Hughes and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-17 with Social Science categories.
David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.
Energy Without Conscience Oil Climate Change And Complicity
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Author : DAVID MCDERMOTT HUGHES.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Energy Without Conscience Oil Climate Change And Complicity written by DAVID MCDERMOTT HUGHES. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Energy industries categories.
"[This book] investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. [The author] examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. [The author] centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously 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 contemporary oil industry. [The author] shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. [The author] ... argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet."--
Corporations Without Conscience
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Author : Ken Wessel
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-08-29
Corporations Without Conscience written by Ken Wessel and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-29 with Business & Economics categories.
Executives, politicians and media pundits are often referred to as leaders even though they are clueless about leadership skills. As a result citizens have become cynical about leaders and are unresponsive to true leaders. Faux leaders facade is made up of lack of conscience, consciousness and conscientiousness. This book will give you direction on how to take control of your life, bring ethics to business, reduce unemployment, create true leaders, meet Stakeholder needs, reduce off-shoring, upgrade US economy and create fair taxing of corporations.
The Passion And The Cross
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Author : Ronald Rolheiser
language : en
Publisher: Franciscan Media
Release Date : 2020-03-04
The Passion And The Cross written by Ronald Rolheiser and has been published by Franciscan Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-04 with Religion categories.
Ronald Rolheiser, one of the most influential spiritual writers of our day, offers profound reflections on the central mystery of our Christian faith. His beautifully written meditations on the passion and the cross invites you to a new understanding of redemption and offers insight into the meaning of your own loss and suffering. Take a journey into the deeper meaning of pain with guidance from a trusted spiritual advisor. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.
The Petro State Masquerade
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Author : Ryan Cecil Jobson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-12-04
The Petro State Masquerade written by Ryan Cecil Jobson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-04 with Social Science categories.
A historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Cecil Jobson traces how a model of governance fashioned during prior oil booms is imperiled by declining fossil fuel production and a loss of state control. Despite the twin-island nation’s increasingly volatile and vulnerable financial condition, however, government officials continue to promote it as a land of inexhaustible resources and potentially limitless profits. The result is what Jobson calls a “masquerade of permanence” whereby Trinbagonian state actors represent the nation as an interminable reserve of hydrocarbons primed for multinational investment. In The Petro-state Masquerade, Jobson examines the gulf between this narrative crafted by the postcolonial state and the vexed realities of its dwindling petroleum-fueled aspirations. After more than a century of commercial oil production, Trinidad and Tobago instructs us to regard the petro-state as less a permanent form than a fragile relation between fossil fuels and sovereign authority. Foregrounding the concurrent masquerades of oil workers, activists, and Carnival revelers, Jobson argues that the promise of decolonization lies in the disarticulation of natural resources, capital, and political power by ordinary people in the Caribbean.
Carbon Capital
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Author : Sean Field
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2025-08-26
Carbon Capital written by Sean Field and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-26 with Business & Economics categories.
"This book is about how and why people who finance the US oil and gas industry ethically and financially evaluate energy and the factors that come to bear on these evaluations"--
Petrocultures
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Author : Sheena Wilson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Petrocultures written by Sheena Wilson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Social Science categories.
Contemporary life is founded on oil – a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors’ essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created. A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption of fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuel Faulkner
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Author : Jay Watson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Fossil Fuel Faulkner written by Jay Watson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with Social Science categories.
Fossil-Fuel Faulkner is the first book-length study of a single writer in the emerging field of the energy humanities. As we try to imagine our way beyond a deeply problematic fossil energy regime that depletes and degrades the planet and sharpens the gap between Global North and Global South and move toward as more just and sustainable energy future, there is much to learn from how previous generations imagined the modern transition into a hydrocarbon-fueled world from the solar- and muscle-powered order that preceded it, and from how they imagined the consequences of that transition, including the new cultural forms it elicited and the new social problems it created. Jay Watson turns to the life and writings of William Faulkner, creator of one of the richest imaginative landscapes in American literary history, for new insights into the deep-reaching connections linking the extraction, production, and use of energy resources in his native US South to its histories of slavery and Jim Crow, its ecologies of disruption and despoilation, the logic of its cultural practices, and the nuances of literary form. Surveying the author's personal and imaginative engagements with coal and oil, with modern automobility and the road narrative, and with the profligate energies of the sun and the human animal, Fossil-Fuel Faulkner explores nearly all of Faulkner's novels and over a dozen of his short stories, and reveals the author to be one of petromodernity's keenest chroniclers and critics.
Power Struggles
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Author : Jaume Franquesa Bartolome
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-23
Power Struggles written by Jaume Franquesa Bartolome and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-23 with Social Science categories.
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despite providing energy that runs the country, the region is still forced to the political and economic periphery as the power they produce is controlled by centralized, international Spanish corporations. Local resistance to wind farm installation in Southern Catalonia relies on the notion of dignity: the ability to live within one's means and according to one's own decisions. Power Struggles shows how, without careful attention, renewable energy production can reinforce patterns of exploitation even as it promises a fair and hopeful future.
Fire Craft
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Author : Erin E. O’Connor
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2025-08-12
Fire Craft written by Erin E. O’Connor and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-12 with Social Science categories.
Glassblowing by hand might seem like a dying art, yet it is thriving: Studios and universities offer popular classes, and glass art is widely exhibited and sold. Amateur and professional glassblowers alike are captivated by the choreography of fire, smoke, and molten material. Why are people drawn to this ancient craft? What is distinctive about the social, physical, and intellectual experience of glassblowing? How does the body learn an art? In Fire Craft, Erin E. O’Connor interweaves an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers. Through compelling stories, such as her struggle to produce an elegant goblet, she shows how a novice becomes hooked by and committed to a craft. Reflecting on embodied knowledge, O’Connor considers how we negotiate mistakes and failures, how we strive to develop proficiency in the face of shortcomings, and how through making objects we make meaning. She also explores the history of glassblowing and how various social, environmental, and knowledge frameworks shape the valorization of craft. From the furnaces of empire to the hot bodies of collaboration and love, O’Connor reveals the interconnectedness of the body with the elemental world. A gripping tale of the social world and experience of glassblowing, Fire Craft passionately defends practical labor as intellectual work that changes self and society.