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Mon, 10/13/2014 - 10:15am to 11:00am
Sandra Steingraber talks about why fracking is not a sustainable solution to our energy needs.
REBROADCAST OF A PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013
In several recent speeches, President Obama has pleased many environmental activists when he pledged to seriously address the issue of climate change. But hidden within his promises of promoting renewable and sustainable energy development is the on-going commitment to drastically increased domestic drilling for natural gas. What Obama does not mention is that most of that natural gas is now extracted using an unconventional, controversial method known as fracking.
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk about why fracking is not a sustainable solution to our energy needs. Our guest is Sandra Steingraber, one of the contributors to the new coffee table tome: Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.
Ecologist, author and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Her highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, presents cancer as a human rights issue. A columnist for Orion magazine, she is currently a scholar in residence in Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY.
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