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calming down after their chest-puffing, chink-chinking evening hysteria ritual .. A rustle in the
hedge ...and a beautiful slender vixen trots softly out, through the grass and past me on to the
start of her night's foray ... It's all so beautiful .. why are we breaking it?' Vanessa Vine Fractivist
So, you have probably heard, the wonderful government wants to solve our energy supply with
hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. I won't go into the deep details of this, but the basics are;
they mix the water with carcinogenic and radioactive chemicals and pump it into the ground to
fracture it in order to release gas. This process not only is insane because they can't take most
of the water back out. But mainly because they are just delaying making a real commitment to
investing in renewables and ignoring that climate change and global warming even exist. This
is my opinion, but the fact of the matter is, people are not being informed of what fracking
actually involves, and the potential risks. They are giving poor local governments bribes to
encourage planning permission and they seem completely determined to go ahead with it.
Fracking has been happening for the last 7 years in America and Australia; we are now seeing
the results of this, including cattle dying, people becoming ill, gas coming out taps and huge
sinkholes appearing. Of course our MPs and fracking companies deny all of this. There certainly
seem to be a mass media blackout at the moment about the scientific realities of climate
change. Fracking is so incredibly insane for so many reasons; polluting our water and using up
at least 50 million tons a year. Potentially cause earthquakes and sinkholes, releasing natural
radioactive materials, which should absolutely stay under the ground. Most who have a taken
slight interest in what fracking actually is will more than likely think it is insane. But most
haven't even taken an interest in what is about to happen. Or they just think, we need energy
and we don't care how we get it. So the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most
recent report based on scientific knowledge relevant to climate change, and I thought to
myself phew, at last, the science is there, the masses will wake up and start demanding a
cleaner/greener future. It was not so, the media hardly mentioned it. I was confused, why
wasn't the government having a month long discussions of how to take immediate action
towards a zero carbon future. The report is saying that climate cha