Sometimes you don’t want to be proved right. For years as the fracking boom exploded across the US, the shale industry and its stooges argued that it was safe. That there was no evidence of harm.
But I and many others warned that the science would take time to catch up with the technology and what science there was published was already sounding the alarm.
Sometimes you don’t want to be proved right. For years as the fracking boom exploded across the US, the shale industry and its stooges argued that it was safe. That there was no evidence of harm.
But I and many others warned that the science would take time to catch up with the technology and what science there was published was already sounding the alarm.
The 10 most recent polls that measured the public's feelings about voting for Congress next year all came up with the same conclusion-- that the Democrats have this one. The polling average is about 6 points in the Democrats' favor with a Morning Consult poll from this week showing the Democrats ahead by 12 points, enough the flip the 50 seats we're looking for.
Last Friday, in excess of a million school children walked out of their schools and colleges demanding urgent action on climate change, in what organisers say was the biggest protest yet, surpassing the one back in March.
Last Friday, in excess of a million school children walked out of their schools and colleges demanding urgent action on climate change, in what organisers say was the biggest protest yet, surpassing the one back in March.
Capitalism is broken. It is like a gun pointed at the heart of the planet. And it’s got these characteristics which mean that it will essentially, necessarily destroy our life support systems. Among those characteristics are the drive for perpetual economic growth on a finite planet. You just can’t support that ecologically. Things fall apart. It also says, well, anyone has got a right to buy as much natural wealth as their money allows, which means that people are just grabbing far more natural wealth than either the population as a whole or the planet itself can support.
Note: I enjoy intersecting with scientists who are associated with universities that are now struggling to keep afloat, for many reasons to include the rise of the admin class, deanlets, non-academic departments, states lowering the matching rate to pay for faculty, presidents of universities making way too much money but throwing more at the athletic departments; and, alas, these vibrant and fully-packed schools — supposedly the smartest and brightest — have continuously sold out by taking bribe money from major corporations to shunt true research away from the capitalist
Yesterday, Britain’s fledgling shale gas industry was dealt another significant blow when three senior judges overturned a draconian injunction that had been granted to the company, INEOS, against anti-fracking campaigners.
