A map of one company's multiple crude oil products is produced without irony in 1957, but today it reveals the dark forces the propel us towards climate catastrophe
The Petroleum Tree was produced in 1957 by Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, later known as Mobil. Intended to boast the company’s multiple crude oil products, the drawing today appears as a cruelly ironic artefact of a time before widespread consciousness of the climate catastrophe
Credit: From The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima / 2014 Princeton Architectural Press
