If you were out on a horse
in the desert, would you sell your water? Would you let somebody
poison the water hole? Of course not. It's simply a matter of
survival. It would be unthinkable.
Fracking in Nevada is
essentially trading our scarce water for someone else's profits. It
should be unthinkable.
Please sign this Petition
telling our representatives how we feel about fracking in Nevada:
The locations where
fracking is being considered here in Nevada are areas of extremely
high water stress.
Fracking consumes huge
amounts of water.
Chemicals found in water
near fracking sites has been found to be toxic,
carcinogenic, and endocrine disruptors.
Livestock
is being harmed by fracking.
And when one considers
methane releases at fracking sites, “natural”
gas is no better than coal in causing climate change.
Face it; frackers are
after the money, and they don't care about anything or anyone else.
And they can get away with it because they are scheming demons and
Americans haven't been willing to stop buying gas.
Our systems are broken.
What we have left are
systems that are totally out of control and self destructive. And
because a few politically powerful people are extending their income
streams and a lot of people have “jobs” (essentially extending
their income streams too), they don't want things to change. For the
money, they don't care how much damage they inflict. Essentially,
they'd rather run this horse till it dies than change directions.
That is the future they
have chosen for us – a future in the middle of nowhere with a dead
horse and no water.
It isn't going to be
communism or socialism or terrorism that's going to take us out. It's
going to be ignorance. It's going to be complacency. It's going to be
the lack of will to change when our situation has critically changed.
We don't have the luxury
of time to believe the lies anymore.
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