Study suggests shale-gas development causing rapid landscape change

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4. I suspect we agree on that.

But we both know it's going to happen for the forseable future.

My position is that one way to get others on our side is to start have the environmental impact of our consumption be more evident. Instead of oil coming from the middle east (and the environmental impact of drilling, etc. staying there), get it here. Just look at the attention that the BP spill got (unfortunately not lasting). I think that people will be more likely to support working toward a cleaner world if the impact of their decisions is more evident.

And, for a bonus, the dollars and jobs are here rather than somewhere in the Middle East where someone's kid eventually has to go die.