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- Title
ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, AND MORAL DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IN AUSTRIAN GALICIA.
- Authors
FRANK, ALISON
- Abstract
Fears about the sustainability of oil-rich communities and hopes that petroleum would fuel financial, social, and moral renewal have accompanied the oil industry since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century. With each successive ecological disaster caused by oil spills, debates over the industry's ecological sustainability sharpen. Discussions about the geological sustainability of the petroleum industry intensify when oil supplies tighten, and dissipate when they increase. Although concerns about the moral viability of communities dependent on oil have become radically unfamiliar since the late nineteenth century, these, too, were once central to debates about the effects of oil on human society. In the nineteenth century, the progress that oil promised to bring was to be measured not only in material wealth, but in the attainment of social harmony and the attenuation of political strife.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; SUSTAINABILITY; INDUSTRIAL pollution; PETROLEUM industry; PETROLEUM &; the environment; OIL spills; PETROLEUM conservation
- Publication
Modern Intellectual History, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1, p171
- ISSN
1479-2443
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1017/S1479244311000102