climate change
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008I have been pondering the influence of climate change on borders, migration patterns and massive social change lately……. and having read a very interesting article in the guardian on saturday about the maverick scientist James Lovelock. Originator of the Gaia Theory, which is essentially the hypothesis that proposed living and non-living particles of the earth are part of a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism….I remembered this image (spotted at supercolossal) and thought it provocative and relevant as an approach towards climate change. It is also symbolic of the human desire to control nature; build a beach house that looks like a fortress with an observation tower in the most remote location possible, where it will obviously be subjected to the full force of the ocean. Occupants can lounge in the observation tower oblivious to the turmoil that surrounds them, and when nature allows they can venture beyond the fortress walls to dip manicured toes in the water….. It is the Sam Bell beach house in California, designed in 1965 by Dale Naegle.
