Kate Orff, an assistant professor at Columbia University and founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture studio in Manhattan, discusses the causes of sustained environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. The book Petrochemical America combines Richard Misrach's photographs of Louisiana's "Chemical Corridor" with Orff's "Ecological Atlas"—a series of speculative drawings developed through intensive research and mapping of data from the region
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Comments [4]
Some images were published on the New Yorker website when they did a write up on the book (see link below)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/petrochemical-america.html#slide_ss_0=1
Would have been nice to see a few pics from the book.
What does your guest this about these recent commercials that BP runs with supposedly residents of the gulf states telling us how wonderful everything is now due to BP's wonderful change and clean-up. They tell us how the area has "come back" and all is well with the wonderful fishing and welcoming us to come down to enjoy the food fished in the now clean, thanks to BP's work, waters.
Clearly natural gas is the lesser of the two evils. Obviously the end goal must be to end the use of fossil fuels as soon as feasible.
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