Description
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge through people's everyday thoughts and practices, whether they work in renewables, nuclear, or fossil fuels; whether they work in industry, policy, or advocacy; whether they produce, distribute, or consume energyIt shows how to create an analytical space in which we can attend to people's own experiences and evaluations without uncritically imposing judgements of how we would like the world to beBy attending to the broader political and economic contexts in which these everyday energy encounters take place, this volume draws attention to the plurality and complexity that characterises the multiple and overlapping ethical worlds' in which we, our interlocutors, and other beings participate
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors
Introduction: the ethical constitution of energy dilemmas
Mette M. High & Jessica M. Smith
1 Projects of devotion: energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States
Mette M. High
2 The solar good: energy ethics in poor markets
Jamie Cross
3 Orphaned wells, oil assets, and debt: the competing ethics of value creation and care withinpetrocapitalist projects of return
Caura Wood
4 Boom to bust, ashes to (coal) dust: the contested ethics of energy exchanges in a declining US coalmarket
Jessica M. Smith
5 The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar
Andrew Walsh
6 Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry
Arthur Mason
7 Fuel of fear and force: gasoline’s energetic power and its entanglement in composite ethics
Amy Penfield
8 Greater goods: ethics, energy, and other-than-human speech
Cymene Howe
Conclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds
Hannah Appel
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