'Fracking in the Dark': Why it Must Stop

The photo accompanying this article was enough to turn my stomach. It appears humankind simply isn't going to stop until we have wasted this planet.

Nature World News
'Fracking in the Dark': Why it Must Stop
August 3, 2014

Researchers have found that shale-gas extraction across the globe is severally outpacing an understanding of the industry's environmental impact. Because of this, explores claim that the industry is "fracking in the dark," choosing locations for extraction without considering all the environmental consequences.

According to a study recently published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, shale-gas production is expected to surge in the next three decades, resulting in a widening of the gap between scientific understanding of fracking consequences and the industry's influence on the Earth.

"We can't let shale development outpace our understanding of its environmental impacts," co-author Morgan Tingley said in a recent statement. "The past has taught us that environmental impacts of large-scale development and resource extraction, whether coal plants, large dams or biofuel monocultures, are more than the sum of their parts."

And this is certainly true. Nature World News reported just last week how consequences of the industrial revolution even reached the South Pole decades before humanity did....

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