Tar Sands

[chervilant]

2. This:

I was drawn to photographing the pipeline because I feel as though there is little public awareness that, if built, the Keystone XL will make avoiding catastrophic climate change much harder.

And, now, these macabre, yet strangely evocative, pictures of the tar sands.

Big storm here woke me. I'm glad I came to DU and got to see this. I no longer think in terms of avoiding climate change. Like you, I am prepared to live out the remainder of my life in a rural, incredible environment

However, I'm still trying to get past my grieving for our younglings -- which I perceive as a vestigial fear of death. Our species is both awesome and abysmal.


I find the intense denial of so many of us rather poignant...