My Dear Western Friends,
As one of the old classics said, and I paraphrase, "Where you look, defines your outlook." By email, you asked me several questions. Below are some of my answers. As links in green, I picked two of my old blogs and kept on adding several articles from the New York Times that were published in the last few days. I am not the only person who is morally troubled.
On the fracking revolution
It used to be that massive environmental destruction happened in the God forsaken foreign countries or the poor empty parts of our motherlands. Not anymore. Now heavy industrial activities come to where we live and work, and environmental damage happens in the ecosystems we actually care about. That's the reality of resource exhaustion paired with the ever-growing appetite for these resources from us, the Bubble People.
Take "shale revolution" as an example: 10,000 tons of clean, round, well-sorted fracking sand per well, or one hundred 100 ton railr…
As one of the old classics said, and I paraphrase, "Where you look, defines your outlook." By email, you asked me several questions. Below are some of my answers. As links in green, I picked two of my old blogs and kept on adding several articles from the New York Times that were published in the last few days. I am not the only person who is morally troubled.
On the fracking revolution
It used to be that massive environmental destruction happened in the God forsaken foreign countries or the poor empty parts of our motherlands. Not anymore. Now heavy industrial activities come to where we live and work, and environmental damage happens in the ecosystems we actually care about. That's the reality of resource exhaustion paired with the ever-growing appetite for these resources from us, the Bubble People.
Take "shale revolution" as an example: 10,000 tons of clean, round, well-sorted fracking sand per well, or one hundred 100 ton railr…