Fracking & Fresh Water: Can the Public Survive the Myopia of Corporations in a Changing Climate? | EV & N 268 – CCTV

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Fresh water supplies are going to be scarce in many coastal cities as seas rise. On land corporations are permanently polluting and destroying fresh water aquifers surface water drainage system and in the process of fracking for profitable fossil fuels.  If planning and immediate action is not undertaken now to conserve and protect fresh water supplies, fresh water will become dangerously scarce in the years and decades ahead.

Fracking may make fossil fuel interests enormous profits, but the fracking processes that generate those profits are are devastating water supplies and subjecting affected areas with permanent contamination by known carcinogens and other chemicals whose precise identity is hidden from the public as corporate “trade secrets.”

See:

• Fracking, Oil and Gas Development

See also:

• GASLAND Trailer 2010

and

• Fox’s Stuart Varney Debate with Anti-Fracking Activist EXPLODES: ‘The Intervie w Is Over!’
  and
• [… additional fracking stories and references]

as well as:

American Rivers  especially:

• Draft Trump Plan Prioritizes Corporate Giveaways Over Clean Water
• Spend More, and Spend Wisely, for Clean Water

And post-Columbian cities elsewhere:

• ‘Day Zero’ Nears For Cape Town As Water Runs Low | On Point

 

Fox’s Stuart Varney Debate with Anti-Fracking Activist EXPLODES: ‘The Intervie w Is Over!’

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Published on Jun 9, 2015

Fox’s Stuart Varney Debate with Anti-Fracking Activist EXPLODES: ‘The Interview Is Over!’

Imagine what would happen when you put anti-fracking activist Josh Fox in the same room as Fox Business Network host and pro-fracking activist Stuart Varney and expected them to have a thorough debate on the controversial natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing.

If you guessed that the conversation quickly turned hostile and ended early, you would be correct.
For context: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a study last week that claimed in its executive summary that there is insufficient evidence to suggest “fracking” has caused widespread environmental issues largely related to drinking water. The study has been used by pro-fracking camps as proof that the practice does not, for instance, cause drinking water to become flammable (as Josh Fox’s Gasland film famously claimed); and anti-fracking activists like Fox have countered that the study was clearly not intended to be comprehensive.

While appearing on Varney & Co. this morning, the Gasland director suggested the EPA tempered its findings with the aforementioned executive summary so as to not to hurt the White House or President Barack Obama‘s overall energy strategy.

“You think this administration wants to frack?” Varney incredulously asked in return. “That’s news to me.”

The spirited debate became intense, however, when Fox brought up that Varney had mentioned off-air, during commercial break, that he owns land in Upstate New York and would not allow fracking under his property.

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future: Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann

Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading?

To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world’s political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.

A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels | Monica Araya

TED
Published on Sep 6, 2016

How do we build a society without fossil fuels? Using her native Costa Rica as an example of positive action on environmental protection and renewables, climate advocate Monica Araya outlines a bold vision for a world committed to clean energy in all sectors.

Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels is Hard to Do

Environmental Policy Alliance
Published on Feb 10, 2015

Learn more at https://www.biggreenradicals.com/

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EPA chief’s questions about climate science draw new scrutiny | TheHill

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt is getting bolder in questioning climate change.

By Timothy Cama – 02/10/18 06:37 PM EST

In several recent public comments, Pruitt has sowed doubt about whether global warming is harmful to humans, and whether anyone could truly know what the Earth’s “ideal” temperature would be in 2100.

“Is it an existential threat? Is it something that is unsustainable? Or what kind of effect or harm is this going to have,” Pruitt said in an interview with Las Vegas television station KSNV.

“We know that humans have most flourished during times of, what? Warming trends. So I think there’s assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing.”

…(read more).

The GMO Gene Pool And The Tipping Point Of Consumer Rejection with Jeffrey M. Smith

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