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Tibet is the High Ground Part III: The Force Majeure, "Peninsula Europe Part III: The Force Majeure"
Medium: digital mapping enhanced by oil and graphite and print material
Year Produced: 2010
Dimensions in inches (H x W): 90" x 96"
Carel: I still have reservations about the best way to present this double entry. What do you think of this rollover?
“The Force Majeure: Peninsula Europe Part III
Where a new complex forest/grassland ensemble is composed in part by using paleo-ecological research methodologies and research into assisting the upward migration of species to rehabit the lands as far as possible, where snow and glacial melt formerly supplied the rivers with consistent flow. The ecological design will seek to create a sponge phenomenon, which would replace, in some measure, the original glacial melt, reducing the effects of flood and drought. Presently, the drought predicted will affect European food production dramatically.”
“The Force Majeure: Tibet is the High Ground Part III
Acknowledges that glacial melt, vastly accelerated by Global Warming, is putting the 7 great rivers that flow through the continent at risk for flood and drought. This work proposes, through an elaborate process of paleo-ecological research, to slowly replace the 2.4 million square kilometer plateau with a vast, water-holding, bio-diverse grassland/open-canopy forest ecosystem. The potential for carbon sequestration suggests that 6 gigatons of carbon can be sequestered per decade.”
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