Extreme Carwash, or the Impact of Vehicles on Extreme Weather Events

The drowned world was a vision of our own future, a warning of what lies ahead.
J.G. Ballard, “The Drowned World,” 1962

It’s interesting when you realize the impact of cars on the environment. They are a major cause of global warming. Extreme flooding is a consequence of car use & overuse. The culprits — the cars & their owners — eventually become the very victims of the conditions they have created.

The profitable romantic myth of the car is met with the disaster of its own making. The hope is that the effects of extreme weather will wake people up to the consequences of their lifestyle choices.

In any case, the ultimate image of poetic justice may very well be cars, their steering, brakes, power windows all disabled, floating downstream, helpless, rudderless just floating in the turbulent waters, their passengers helpless to do anything but survive.

This is the ironic result of Mother Nature’s just deserts.

“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production — in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation — essential as they are, make people sick and die.”
• Barry Commoner, environmentalist

DIG•SCAPE is an audio alternative-phenomenological-impressionistic, multicultural soundscape mashup of loud issues, intuition+research and multisampled insights investigating our current wackadoodle malaise from an askew, engaged and anomalous vantage point.

Playlist

Autobahn • Señor-Coconut
Know Your Car • Delia Derbyshire
BEEP BEEP – The Little Nash Rambler • The Playmates
Car Car Car [Thomas Mayr Ken Hayakawa Tesla Remix] • DJ Hell
Addicted to Oil and Violence • Kurt Vonnegut
Automobile • Sam “Lightnin’ Hopkins
Happy Car Crashing • Eboman
Cars • The Desperate Bicycles
The Complacent Americans • Larry Blake
Cool Water • Johnny Cash
Cool Water • Hank Williams
Carwreck • Funki Porcini
invention for Radio No.1: The Dreams • Delia Derbyshire
Cool Water • Slim Whitman
Song Made Entirely From Car Noises • Drive Tribe
Autobahn [version] • Kraftwerk
Trafficscape • Eric Winstone
Traffic Jam • James Taylor
Car Crash • Idles
Floating World – Part 1 • Annea Lockwood
Autobahn • Cha-Cha-2000
Atrocity Exhibition Documentary • J.G. Ballard
Automotive Poetic Justice • b/art
Traffic Jam • Eric Donaldson
Warm • Normal + G. Jones remix, Chris Burke & Glomag
Fuck Cars • Endless Jess
Car Song • Woody Guthrie
A Sound Map of the Danube • Annea Lockwood
Under Dead Water Season 2 • Chris Burke
Motorway (English Cover Autobahn) • John Chivers
Destroying Anything • Negativland
Sleepy • Funki Porcini

Señor-Coconut • Delia Derbyshire • Playmates  • DJ Hell • Kurt Vonnegut • Lightnin’ Hopkins • Eboman • The Desperate Bicycles • Larry Blake • Johnny Cash • Hank Williams • Emergency Alert System • Slim Whitman • Drive Tribe  • Kraftwerk • Eric Winstone • James Taylor • Idles • Annea Lockwood • Cha-Cha-2000 • Eric Donaldson • Glomag • Endless Jess • Woody Guthrie  • John Chivers • Negativland • Funki Porcini

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