Scenes from "Petrochemical America"

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Over at my sister-in-law Heather Sparks's new Science Sparks Art tumblog, selections from Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's book Petrochemical America, a collection of Misrach's photos and Orff's "ecological atlas" documenting Louisiana's "Chemical Corridor," aka "Cancer Alley." Above, Taft, Louisana's Holy Rosary Cemetery purchased by Dow Chemical. Petrochemical America

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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MrBillWest

Check out Taft, LA on Google Maps! The entire town is the plant. The population is 0.
cellocgw

Ummmm…. didn’t some other poor photog fella just get threatened by the FBI for taking pix with a refinery in them?
Ashen Victor

Fascinating, I love the strange interaction of the brutalist industrial architecture and the environment.
Somehow all those huge buildings with their pipes and chimneys reminds me of some sort of post apocalyptic castles…
Austin Rees

In Texas there is a old town called Morgan’s Point. A third of the town was collected by emanate domain for the Houston Port Authority. Now its cemetery lays surrounded by a shipping yard.
Popgun Pirates

It’s the Godflesh – Songs of Love and Hate album cover! Cool!