This is about American consumer society and what it does with its biggest and baddest consumable: the automobile. From what you’ll see in this collection of my photographs, we’re pretty flip about getting rid of the beasts. It’s easy enough to dump them in the desert, in a river, by the roadside. Then there’s the other side of the coin: the cost to the Earth and its non-human inhabitants.

	Dedicated to the memory of Gary Brickman, July 2000 © Matt Jalbert 2000 Images may not be reproduced or used without my written permission.