World Resources 3

Triptych of World Resources

Left Panel depicts some of the ways we are currently using our 'resources', Human action derived. The Right Panel the possible future. The red upper section is the more human aspects, how current world actions are directly impacting our built environment. The blue is both looking at things we are doing in the marine environment- our global lines of communications and the implications of extreme weather events, burnt out structures on flooded land. The yellow left and right panel are depicting food resources, the burning of crops in war zones, and the eventual desertification through climate change and short-term management issues.

The central panel is to depict empty voids where we mine and drill for energy, water and mineral resources, that have all but disappeared.

A few years ago, the Geological Society of London journal published an article on the state of the resources left in the earth for mining. The article's premise being that the research suggested : the amount of ores left in the earth's crust was less than what was being used on the earth's surface. i.e. our supply of metals is now lower than our demand.

Then we have a climate that is being pushed, by our activities, into a faster rate of change than it has previously experienced. So climatic events happen in a more extreme way, be it intense rainfall, intense heat, intense cold as the atmosphere and oceans are locally messed about with.

Then we decide to start bombing each- taking our precious scarce resources, turn them into something that we're going to intentionally destroy and in the process destroy other things. this simultaneously increases the greenhouse gases entering our atmosphere that are causing issues with the climate.