First posted on FB on 11/24/13:
Pretty awesome music video. If you don't know really know what fracking
is, or want to help others learn, here's a 2:30min rap lesson imbedded.
This doesn't cover shale oil extraction, which by nature is a more
complex, destructive and toxin-rich process. Where fracking uses
pressure, water, and chemicals to cause small fissures underground that
force oil deposits to the surface (and elsewhere), the
shale extraction forces oil deposits out of rock. I've recently learned
we are doing fracking off the coast of California. All of these
processes cause substantial issues related to waste disposal, extensive
water use, waste water management, and water and air pollution (i.e.
production/release of sulfides and methane--which are already having a
profound impact on global warming) not to mention the trade secret
chemical dispersal agents (some of the known constituents are
carcinogens and toxins). Perhaps worst of all, there is very little
oversight because of the anti-regulation legislation that the oil/gas
industry wrote and Bush signed into law. Finally in Canada and U.S.,
noteable free speech states, if you protest these projects you are
typically considered a potential terrorist. Most Americans don't know
(nor do they want to know and/or care). We all want our energy to drive
our extremely high level of greed and self gratification. Meanwhile this
"stuff your bird and then yourself" Thursday marks the beginning of the
consumeristic religious holiday season. Millions of Americans will be
programming that next generation that it is all about stuff at any cost.
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