The Benneton company puts a great deal of money towards documentary photography. The best known example of this is their magazine Colors. I have been a long-time fan of the magazine and decided to pick up a copy at the bookstore yesterday. The current issue is on Energy.
The photos are top-shelf and the writing follows its usual quirky manner with hard-edged quotes, funny scenarios, and interesting facts.
Here are some choice quotes:
The Hydroelectric Teams of The Military Police are building the Three Gorges Dam for the happiness of the people.After 250,000 workers, 28 million cubic feet of concrete, displacing 1.3 million people, and US$22 billion the Dam will supply only 3.6 percent of China's electrical needs by 2010.
The amount of oil annually leaked from cars and aircraft is three times more than the amount spilled by tankersThey aren't even counting those dirty-ass jet-skis.
In 1971 when we discovered the first barrel of oil we had a party. We hoped it would change everything. Now I'm not dancing for the oil money. Look at Nigeria - before oil they had agriculture, now they don't. An in Gabon with all the oil they have they can't feed themselves.
- Abdoulaye Djonouma, former oil minister of Chad.
The great part of this sad story is that Exxon is making a killing in Chad!
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States
- Dick Cheney speaking in 1998; at the time he was CEO of Halliburton.
Posted by dmason at February 22, 2004 05:11 PM