I mean, I didn't think I was one of those folk. Tin-foil hats never really made for good fashion, but here I am.
I am a fourth year at the University of Virginia studying biochemistry, biology and physics. I work in a fruit fly laboratory where we dissect their brains and put them through all sorts of contraptions, including them inoculating them with cocaine to research circadian rhythms. I don't really have a direct stake in fracking; I'm not a leaseholder, and fracking hasn't come to me, yet.
My stance is mixed. I mean I love the idea of abundant cleanly-burning natural gas (its main emission is CO2), and I'm less alarmed about the CO2 emissions than I am about animals dying and poisoned groundwater. Maybe contamination might be due to occasional accidents that aren't the norm. Maybe some contamination is the norm, but contamination that can be contained. I would be sad if it's not environmentally sustainable. I'm all for finding out. Certainly communities shouldn't be paying a public price for the private profits of private drilling.
Idealism is today, apathy is forever.
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