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.... In the lifetime of my informants, geologists had married this model of upward flows to the economic scenarios of supply and demand. Hydrocarbons, they had come to assume, left the ground and entered the global market in one natural, entirely ordinary progression. Even their efforts to reduce carbon emissions...

... to the economic scenarios of supply and demand. Hydrocarbons, they had come to assume, left the ground and entered the global market in one natural, entirely ordinary progression. Even their efforts to reduce carbon emissions actually produced more oil—and more carbon emissions. It could not be otherwise...

... traveler: an environmental anthropologist writing a book on energy policy. Together, in 2010, we participated in a round of public consultations on the country’s first policy regarding climate change. The participants might have considered carbon emissions and means of reducing them. Instead...

... expedient to give humanity enough time to permanently reduce carbon emissions. adapt mitigate refugees anthropogenic climate change sea level rise ...

...—how much will we have to sacrifice to replace it? My informants in Trinidad, moreover, consistently avoided considering the ethical consequences of oil. They were, then, as I argue in this chapter, complicit with carbon emissions and climate change. As its main task, Energy without Conscience...

... The final chapter of the book reckons with the daunting threat that the fight against global warming may not succeed, as the window to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit catastrophic climate change is closing right now. How to keep on fighting when carbon-fueled capitalism keeps winning...