It’s always about exploitation

It’s always about exploitation

The National Geographic February 2019 issue has a good story about lithium mining in Bolivia, with beautiful photographs by photojournalist Cédric Gerbehaye. As we scramble to try to electrify everything, and build the batteries we need to go with that electricity, we...
The Canadian Mining Boom You’ve Never Seen Before

The Canadian Mining Boom You’ve Never Seen Before

Photographer Garth Lenz has created a new photo essay about mining in British Columbia, Canada. Photographed primarily from the air, the images show the vast extent of development for these mines, largely hidden from public view as the mines are located in hard to...
The Beast

The Beast

This is an excellent photo essay in Bloomberg about Fort McMurray and the recent wildfire. Reading this essay is a reminder of just how much investment we have in oil, and how difficult it is going to be to get off fossil fuels. “By 2040, [the oil sands] will...