Carbon Capital Climate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing

"Ever wonder how, despite our climate emergency, oil and gas industry executives justify their continued investments? Sean Field's excellent book takes readers inside their ethical worlds and the visions of the future they see as just and right. Field shows how hydrocarbon financiers link their senses of value to financial actions, locking in future extraction with which we all must live. Understanding these ethical sensibilities, so divergent from those who fight against carbon extraction, is crucial for building momentum toward more sustainable environments." - Caitlin Zaloom, author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

"Offers unprecedented insight into the ethics and values of those who finance the oil and gas industry. . . . .Essential reading for those who wish to challenge the ecocidal and genocidal momentum of petroculture." - Dominic Boyer, author of No More Fossils

"Shows how finance, Christianity, and narrative have come together in Houston to shape the recent American energy regime. This energy regime, we learn in this highly readable ethnography, is also an ethical regime: a powerful set of sensibilities and imaginaries about the place of oil in humans' past, present, and future." - Douglas Rogers, author of The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism