hydrofracking

[ericadawn16]

"Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies have helped to increase our total natural gas resources by almost 50 percent over the past decade and it is estimated that by the year 2035, over a quarter of our natural gas production will come from shale gas, and the primary method of collection will be hydrofracking."

-Marco Rubio

Excuse while I go sit in the corner and weep for humanity...

Comments

[geminia905.livejournal.com]

I could imagine if this conversation was going on 150 years ago.

"You wear clothes made of cotton don't you? You should just be grateful there are slaves out there picking that cotton."

Just go along with the status quo, ignore the evils of the practice and not even try to imagine a less harmful option, because that might be inconvenient.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Right, even now we can take steps to improve energy consumption in our own lives. For example, a lot of plastic bags are now made from natural gas, including gas derived from hydrofracking. While plastic bags are often inevitable for bread loaves and inside cereal boxes, we do have other choices for everything else. My mom and I refuse plastic bags everywhere we go. We either bring s reusable cloth bag or carry the items ourselves. For the grocery store, we just have the items put back into the cart and put them into boxes in the trunk.

We can also keep everything unplugged that isn't absolutely necessary. I have my additional electronics on a power switch that I can just turn on and off. There also have been huge advances in energy efficient light bulbs.

To think it's an all or nothing proposition is really no different than religious extremism and just as dangerous.