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| Breakthrough |
Inspiration for this post is drawn primarily from Power Places, a portfolio by photographer John Phafl. His study presents the natural landscape as a theater set populated with images depicting insatiable demands for energy generated by our planet's burgeoning population. Power Places portends a collision course - stunning landscapes shrouded by the advancing cavernous maw of an energy Goliath.
During daily walks I too find examples of society's energy needs intruding into the environment, but I also discover images demonstrating nature's counterpunch to the intrusions. The existential question is whether a tipping point will be reached when intrusion and consequent abuse of the environment overwhelms what an increasingly stressed natural world can reclaim, refresh, and renew.
Punch
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| Hand of Man |
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| Energy is Man's Oxygen |
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| Concrete Crypt |
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| Electricity |
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| Stake in the Heart |
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| Mechanized Brigade |
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| Coexistence |
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| 'Natural' Gas |
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| Walled-in |
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| Controlling the Spigot |
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| Plastic! |
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| A Once Luscious Landscape |
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| Boa Constrictor |
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| Partial Solution |
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| Breakthrough |
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| "I Speak for the Trees" |
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| Creeping Back |
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| Breakout! |
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| Nature's Inexorable Counter Intervention |
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| Hope |
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| Rising Above |
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In Harmony?
and that remains the existential question.
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images © David Greenfield
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