One of the many differences I noticed when visiting Europe was the lack of news stories about murder and violence. In fact all the news on the BBC and other news channels was focused on racism in America( Paula and George Z.), Wimbledon and how England has discovered enough natural gas to make the self sufficient for the next 40 years.
I found the fact the Brits don't support the sale of guns, have socialized medicine and will not grow any genetically modified food and yet embrace the blasting of the underground shale quite a paradox. I did see many large wind turbines, which is very admirable. I just thought that our British cousins, that always look down on our reckless destruction of our bodies and environment would think twice about the cracking of the ground below their little isle.
I definitely am worried about fracking. I definitely have watched this technology emerge and I am not convinced that is without problems. I have watched both the Gas land documentaries and frankly I do worry about our ground water and the shifting of our natural fault lines. Is their any correlation to the number of earthquakes and nearby fracking?
I wish that we could really throw our money towards more solar and wind power. I have heard that some scientists believe that we could fully power the energy needs of all people with these technologies and they do not create methane or carbon dioxide by products. The excitement that the Brits showed towards their early experiments with fracking was very disappointing to me.
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