Our Friend The Oil Well
Posted by billrichards on 16 July 2010
I’ve been trying to figure out my fixation on the BP disaster. I’ve finally concluded that it’s not so much the sheer scale of the atrocities, and more what the whole event represents. Here we have incontrovertible evidence of the horrific consequences of tearing up the Earth to extract toxic compounds while merely paying lip service to the idea of sustainability. But Congress still can’t even pass a fucking carbon tax, the moderate half-measure to end all moderate half-measures to give the appearance of dealing with the long-term effects of the fossil fuel economy. The whole spectacle of watching political elites reconcile the horrific scenes on the Gulf with their own unwillingness to do anything about the problem is sickly amusing.
OK, with that out of the way, here is a coloring book I did for a book design class I’m taking right now. I did it in the style of a piece of BP corporate literature. It’s for kids who want to understand what happens when a well blows out.
Spreads after the jump…
