Oil and Gas are So Cheap!
November 21st, 2021 Barry Posted in Environmental cartoons | No Comments »
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels.
The first three panels show a continuous scene of post-hurricane wreckage; house roofs lie on the ground at odd angles, all sorts of lumber and shards of unidentifiable broken objects are sticking up in the air, or litter the ground. A power line pole and a couple of streetlamps are leaning at odd angles. There are occasional identifiable objects mixed with all the litter on the ground; a hairbrush, a child’s ball, a desktop computer. All three panels are colored in greens, browns, and dim oranges that (I hope) will remind people of mud. The sky is a dull orange. A distant jet plane – incongruously colored in shades of blue – can be seen in the sky.
There are dazed-looking people standing in or looking through the wreckage.
PANEL 1
A man with dark hair, rectangular glasses and a neat van dyke beard is clutching a little pile of framed photos to his chest. A woman sits on the ground near him, her face in her hands. Nearby, a person wearing a long coat, and lifting what might be a round table top, looks back at the man with the van dyke beard.
BEARD: I rescued some family photos… everything else is gone.
LONG COAT: Me too… My business, my house…
PANEL 2
A woman wearing a hoodie, and with her hair mostly wrapped in a scarf, is talking to a child and petting her on the head.
HOODIE: Mommy’s in the hospital, so you’ll stay with me until we find Daddy.
HOODIE (thought): If we do.
PANEL 3
A man in a striped sweater stands, looking sad and dazed. Further in the foreground, an older man, bald and with glasses and wearing a vest, and a woman with a baseball cap and her hair tied in a pony tail, are looking around and talking. The woman is looking at a smart phone.
GLASSES: How much will it cost to rebuild all this?
BASEBALL CAP: Billions. Weather disasters cost us $99 billion last year.
PANEL 4
A new setting. We are aboard a private jet plane. On one side of the aisle is a long sofa; on the other side, a single airplane-style seat, with a full table (not just a fold-out tray) in front of it. There’s a vase with flowers, and an open laptop, on the table. Sitting in the seat, a man wearing a collared shirt with a striped necktie is talking on his cell phone. Nearby, a flight attendant is holding a tray, offering the man a glass of wine. This panel is colored mostly in antiseptic blues, although the people are colored in a light, bright orange.
NECKTIE: So I told the senator, “forget wind and solar! Oil and gas are so much cheaper!”
