New Book: From Big Oil to Big Green

[Marco Grasso]

Dear Colleagues,

Shameless promotion: my new book From Big Oil to Big Green. Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022) is available in Open Access and can be downloaded here:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/big-oil-big-green

The book argues that by indiscriminately flooding the global economy with fossil fuels—while convincing the public that halting climate change is a matter of consumer choice, that fossil fuels are synonymous with energy, and that a decarbonized world would take civilization back to the Stone Age—Big Oil is morally responsible for the climate crisis. The book explains that it has managed to avoid being held financially accountable for past harm and that its duty of reparation has never been theoretically developed or justified. After making the moral case for climate reparations and their implementation, the book develops Big Oil’s duty of decarbonization, which entails its transformation into Big Green by phasing out carbon emissions from its processes and, especially, its products.

Best,

Marco Grasso