Under current law, we have little recourse. We're expected to feed our children poison and live with the consequences.
This is not acceptable. We bring our children into the world intending to give them every chance for a great future. We must not stand idly by while corporate-state interests make decisions that will make our dream for them, and their dreams for themselves, impossible.
Big Gas interests claim that "natural" gas is a "clean, domestically produced bridge fuel" to a "sustainable future." But these claims are flagrant lies. Fracking for gas is as dirty or dirtier a process even than coal mining. And the gas that is fracked will go to the highest bidder, not to local communities or even to states in the USA; those high bidders are almost all in Europe and Asia, and the corporations would be working against their own mission (to make as much money as possible) if they were to sell it to us cheap.
But the industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars marketing to the public and lobbying lawmakers. People and legislators believe these lies because they've been repeated over and over. These lies are pitting neighbors against one another, dividing and fracturing (fracking) communities and families.
The industry has essentially forced parents to feed their kids rat poop and glass shards before sending them out to play in traffic with loaded guns. Endangering the welfare of children is a crime throughout the land. Fracking is a crime, and frackers should pay a very high penalty, including jail time, for fracking our children and our communities.
But frackers continue to dupe the public and lobby legislators, and get away with criminal behavior. The industry argument goes like this: You'll get rich if you sign over your mineral rights to us. Those who sign will get rich. Those who do not will suffer untold economic woes.
They are trying to make it a fight between economics and environmentalists. But anyone who has half a brain understands that we all depend on the "environment" to live. We all must be environmentalists -- and not permit anyone to use that as a dirty word. Those who scoff at environmentalists are the criminals.
We all must stand firm and say NO to this destructive industry. NO to corporate power that would use us and our children as lab rats. NO to a government that, in collusion with Big Gas/Big Oil, would keep us enslaved to dirty, finite fossil fuels. NO to fracking. NO to rat poop in the pancakes.
Instead, we must say YES to a sane energy policy. YES to sustainable jobs in a national program of infrastructure rebuilding, energy conservation, and renewable energy projects on the local, state, and national levels. YES to our future. YES to our children's future, and our grandchildren's.
And, good grief, NO poop in the pancakes.
This is not acceptable. We bring our children into the world intending to give them every chance for a great future. We must not stand idly by while corporate-state interests make decisions that will make our dream for them, and their dreams for themselves, impossible.
Big Gas interests claim that "natural" gas is a "clean, domestically produced bridge fuel" to a "sustainable future." But these claims are flagrant lies. Fracking for gas is as dirty or dirtier a process even than coal mining. And the gas that is fracked will go to the highest bidder, not to local communities or even to states in the USA; those high bidders are almost all in Europe and Asia, and the corporations would be working against their own mission (to make as much money as possible) if they were to sell it to us cheap.
But the industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars marketing to the public and lobbying lawmakers. People and legislators believe these lies because they've been repeated over and over. These lies are pitting neighbors against one another, dividing and fracturing (fracking) communities and families.
But frackers continue to dupe the public and lobby legislators, and get away with criminal behavior. The industry argument goes like this: You'll get rich if you sign over your mineral rights to us. Those who sign will get rich. Those who do not will suffer untold economic woes.
They are trying to make it a fight between economics and environmentalists. But anyone who has half a brain understands that we all depend on the "environment" to live. We all must be environmentalists -- and not permit anyone to use that as a dirty word. Those who scoff at environmentalists are the criminals.
We all must stand firm and say NO to this destructive industry. NO to corporate power that would use us and our children as lab rats. NO to a government that, in collusion with Big Gas/Big Oil, would keep us enslaved to dirty, finite fossil fuels. NO to fracking. NO to rat poop in the pancakes.
Instead, we must say YES to a sane energy policy. YES to sustainable jobs in a national program of infrastructure rebuilding, energy conservation, and renewable energy projects on the local, state, and national levels. YES to our future. YES to our children's future, and our grandchildren's.
And, good grief, NO poop in the pancakes.
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