Beyond fossil fuels

Joseph Romm writes compellingly about our need to move off of fossil fuels - including saying no to fracking. It is not as hard as it sounds and if we don't, our children will look back in 30 years at a degraded world that we created in their presence, with tainted water, insecure food sources, sky-high energy prices and they will wonder why we didn't do something about it when we could. The sad part is that this is neither new nor news, yet it still needs to be treated as if it is, until we really do it.

See what Joe says:


"If you liked the Oscar-nominated fracking exposé “Gasland” by Josh Fox, you’ll love the sequel Gasland, Part II, which is being broadcast on HBO Monday night.
I think it’s a better movie, more entertaining and even more compelling in making a case that we are headed on a bridge to nowhere — a metaphorical gangplank — with our hydraulic fracturing feeding frenzy.
Future generations living in a climate-ruined world will be stunned that we drilled hundreds of thousands of fracking and reinjection wells:

• Even though we knew that fossil fuels destroy the climate and accelerate drought and water shortages;
• Even though we knew that leaks of heat-trapping methane from fracking may well be vitiating much of the climate benefits of replacing coal with gas; and

Even though each fracked well consumes staggering amounts of water, much of which is rendered permanently unfit for human use and reinjected into the ground where it can taint even more ground water in the coming decades."

And more.

The good news is that a whole new world of renewables for vibrant economies, livable communities and higher quality of life is within reach. Now. 

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