RE-EXPLORING HYDRAULIC FRACTURING (FRACKING) IN THE U.S

摘要

Human beings are not likely to stop using fossil fuels in the foreseeable future. We must find ways to develop and use fossil fuels with the least harm to the environment and to human health as possible. We should challenge the notion the economic development and prosperity can be achieved without harm to the environment and to human health. One group of authors state: The idea the progress equates to material growth is deeply embedded in post-Renaissance Western culture and in the now-dominant economic system, market capitalism. The increasing connectivity and interdependence among countries has disseminated this assumption globally. But we also see more clearly the extent of negative externalities, the environmental, ecological, and social damages, that market-driven extraction production, consumption, and waste cause.