My presentation at NACIS 2023 has been uploaded to youTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NJbU1vusUIn retrospect, I'd emphasize the contrast between the nostalgia invoked by the vintage maps, and the catastrophic climate consequences of our…
Petrofuture Oregon….Gas station road maps are one of my favorite bits of ephemeral Americana. As a kid, I would often spend hours tracing out imagined road trips, or reviewing trips…
Back in Seattle again.... I'm mashing up these old bits of gas station Americana with the sea level rise that fossil fuels will ultimately cause.66 meters of sea level rise…
Paris and Île-de-France ... the Retrofuture map.Après moi, le déluge ... mixing up 66m of sea level rise with this 1740 map... Environs De Paris, from @david_rumsey_maps.If you can spend…
San Francisco Bay Petrofuture...the Chevron map.Chevron has a huge presence in and around the SF Bay, so it's a pleasure to base this on their 1953 road map of the…
California ... the Petrofuture map.At 218’ of sea level rise, California's Central Valley will become a vast inland bay.The Sea of Cortes will have inundated the Coachella and Imperial valleys.…
Petrofuture map for the Mid-Atlantic states...This shows 66m of sea level rise with a vintage Shell Oil gas station map base. 1956 map of the East Coast from @david_rumsey_maps From…
New England Petrofuture…The New England states become a literal island unto themselves as the ocean rises into the Hudson River Valley. This shows 66m of sea level rise with a…
How many billions of dollars have oil corporations spent on greenwashing? In my own small way, I’m using parody to counter that, and associate their brands to climate change. This…
If the burning of fossil fuels ultimately leads to all the ice caps melting, 66 meters of sea level rise would be the result. Let's see what oil corporations are causing, using their own maps.
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