Expect to see this jpg a lot more in the future...
The reason for the quakes looks to be natural gas extraction techniques. Here's the money quote at the end:
She said she and her husband had removed everything from the walls of their house, including family photos and television sets, because many photos had fallen in recent quakes.
"Other than that, there's really not much more you can do," she said. "It's Mother Earth. It's going to do what it's going to do. All we can do is wait for the big one and hope and pray it doesn't happen."
This is a great example of the American ethos. The "Shit Happens" school of human society. If, indeed, the earthquakes are caused by injection wells, then there really IS something you can do. Stop with the injection wells. But Americans have a unique sense of fatalism when it comes to preventable environmental disasters. Mountain top drilling poisons a stream? Not much you can do. Toxic waste dumped in the water supply? Not much you can do.
The amount of crap the average American will eat is really amazing. That's why the Wisconsin situation has been so surprising. Usually, we just sit and take our beatings from the Invisible Hand of the market and complain about Wall Street plutocrats while doing nothing.
It's refreshing to see people say, No, I CAN do something. Be nicer if that ethos spread.
No comments:
Post a Comment