Mining Scars & Smokestacks: Industrial Topography Illustrated in Google Earth
Sun, Mar 28 2010 11:33 | PermalinkOur Geocurrentcast this week, aims to illustrate some of the most awe-inspriing images of the impact of industrialization. This week's Google Earth tour looks at man's physical impact on the surface of the earth through our thirst for mining ore, gold, boron, diamonds, uranium salt, natural gas, oil, and even the wind.
The tour takes time to stop with the army of Alexander the Great at the Khewra Salt Mines of Pakistan, resists Pinochet at El Teniente and El Chuquicama in Chile, and adds an extra karat of guilt to your grandfather's wedding ring during its stop at the hand dug mines of South Africa.
The goal of this tour is to instill a deeper curiosity on issues extraction, energy use, consumption, land reclamation and industrialization through satellite illustration.
Next, download the tour as a KMZ file, and double click the movie icon the places menu of Google Earth to play the tour.
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