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I have been weaning myself off Facebook recently which has left a persistent hole in my internet surfing routine/compulsions. Now when I click on the tab without realizing, the constant requirement that I re-log in snaps me out of the FB trance and I turn elsewhere.
Anyway this morning in an effort to avoid Facebook and a strong desire to not realize I killed my morning looking at Reddit memes, I found myself searching PubMed for different journal articles on hydraulic fracturing, the process of forcing water and chemicals deep underground to force natural gas stores up to the surface. I have been casually interested in this topic for a while... I have come to strongly suspect the causal relationship between health problems and fracking proximity, and I'm cynical about the collective stupidity and short-sightedness surrounding this problem being just another source of our demise.
So over coffee I convinced myself we are gonna all poison ourselves in a decade. Either from the fracking fluid we use to release these gas stores will poison water supplies, or poison gas released will choke out communities living around these wells, or our livestock will die and soil get contaminated...Our continent will release all this toxic air and water like a giant poison fart, perhaps poison shart if I am drawing the clearest analogy. I am near certain we will be too stupid and stubborn to stop drilling even as we are dropping dead, or choking out, birth-defected, or all suddenly autistic.
Romney Ryan 2012 y'all!
Anyway this morning in an effort to avoid Facebook and a strong desire to not realize I killed my morning looking at Reddit memes, I found myself searching PubMed for different journal articles on hydraulic fracturing, the process of forcing water and chemicals deep underground to force natural gas stores up to the surface. I have been casually interested in this topic for a while... I have come to strongly suspect the causal relationship between health problems and fracking proximity, and I'm cynical about the collective stupidity and short-sightedness surrounding this problem being just another source of our demise.
So over coffee I convinced myself we are gonna all poison ourselves in a decade. Either from the fracking fluid we use to release these gas stores will poison water supplies, or poison gas released will choke out communities living around these wells, or our livestock will die and soil get contaminated...Our continent will release all this toxic air and water like a giant poison fart, perhaps poison shart if I am drawing the clearest analogy. I am near certain we will be too stupid and stubborn to stop drilling even as we are dropping dead, or choking out, birth-defected, or all suddenly autistic.
Romney Ryan 2012 y'all!