Edward Burtynsky: Oil
November 25, 2009 | Edward Tufte
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See Tyler Green’s good report at Modern Art Notes:
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2009/11/burtynsky_oil_and_its_most_unu.html
The book is amazing, powerful, disturbing.
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Dear ET,
Burtynsky also did a very nice 4 minute talk at one of the TED conferences backed up by his large format photographs – http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_photographs_the_landscape_of_oil.html.
Best wishes
Matt R
In his 2009 TED talk Burtynsky refers to what has apparently become the new liberal mantra, that peak oil is coming. Every time I hear about peak oil, I am reminded of a talk I attended in 1996 by James W. Kinnear, the former CEO of Texaco, where he said “you’ve probably heard the world only has a 30 year reserve of oil. We’ve always had a 30 year reserve. We’ve had a 30 year reserve for the last 30 years.”
What happens if peak oil isn’t on the horizon?
I wrote a report exactly on this topic in 1975. For the report and discussion, go to our thread:
https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002Sl&topic_id=1