Carbon Capital by Sean Field - 9781479831692

Carbon CapitalClimate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing\nAuthor(s): Sean Field\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479831692, 978-1479831692\nSynopsis\nSurprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiers\n It is no secret that the fossil fuel industry, whose products power modern America both physically and financially, inflicts immense destruction to our environment. The past, present, and future of US energy have been determined not just by engineers, but by financiers, an under-studied group of energy investors.\n Drawing on four years of ethnographic work in Houston, Texas, the financial center of the oil industry, Carbon Capital explores how oil financiers decide what a good investment is, and how they incorporate ethics into their decision making. While many who are concerned about climate change see those involved in the gas and oil industries as immoral profit chasers who d.