Mark Ruffalo on hydraulic fracking:
“Either we’re going to go with some grace into green energy, or we’re gonna go kicking and screaming, but we’re going by God. The world is already leaving us behind. We’re being left behind. America. Because the gas and oil industry has a strangle hold on us. And our politicians.” He leaned back, contemplating what he had just said, then nodded to himself. “But we’re going.”
Fracking involves pumping your groundwater full of nasty, toxic chemicals which then come up into your house, make you sick, and leave your property worthless. The best part? Oil and gas companies currently get away with this because Congress exempted them from all regulation in 2005. And did I mention that it makes your tapwater catch fire and explode? Really!
I think it’s time everyone started using the word “fracking” as a euphemism for pollution in general, as in just look at all this fracking litter or all these fracking SUVs are killing the polar bears. The word has the benefit of already being part of the popular culture thanks to Battlestar Galactica, and sounds very much like the noises you might make if your tapwater caught fire and exploded — onomatopoeia makes for a good meme.
