2007. En klimasafari click to visit site and enlarged image
The older woman in the front, left of the life raft is in the pose of the raft’s namesake (Think)
This is one of several thought provoking images (and 1 of 2 maps) from the artist Rolf Grovens that can be found at
It is a map of the North Sea (Atlantic), Scandinavian countries with the glow (from diesel generated electricity?) through the haze of petrochemical extraction.
Do we sail on, “unencumbered by the thought process”?
Maybe with the open Arctic transportation corridor we can get cheap oil from Scotland?
Are we all in this boat together?
I wish Google did Norwegian-English translation. Here is the caption but what is on the bluff top?
One of his other maps was featured at StrangeMaps, which intrigued me to find others he did.
- http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/155-the-norwegian-drop/
- #155 The Norwegian Drop
[Compare his Norwegian version of 2007. Tre Kvinner http://www.groven.no/rolf/previewpages/previewpage_3kvinner.php with that of the New Yorker’s Anita KunzID: 124159, Published in The New Yorker July 30, 2007
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Just thought I’d give you the translation: The kid in the front of the boat is Princess Ingrid Alexandra, the future Queen of Norway, next to her, the environmental minister Helen Bjørnøy who a lot of people are claiming is not doing a good enough job. The man taking charge of the boat left side is Frederic Hauge, highly successful and significant environmental fighter for 20 years and President of the Bellona foundation, a renown environmental NGO. The other guy holding a paddle is a hot-shot investor with a flair for the environment and behind them the famous alpinist Kjetil Andre Aamot who has been part of an anti-global warming campaign to keep the winters white. The women are Inga, an eager political representative, Siri Kalvig is a meteorologist working with a climate campaign and finally; falling behind, the leader for one of Norway’s biggest political parties, still partially denying global warming and national action. Their faces all express the way they are positioned in the debate of climate change.
There is a lot of Norwegian factors to this image. Think could be referring to the electric car first initiated in Norway, then sold to Ford and now back in Norway. I guess first and foremost, the image is about oil, and of course oil extraction in one of the worlds most vulnerable areas; the Arctic. The risk is higher, oil spill will have huge detrimental effects and we also need to slow down the thirst for oil to combat global warming. However oil is Norway’s prime export and significant to the economy.
Thank you so much.
Any idea what the cluster of dots in the clouds above the sun represent?