Bernie Sanders is Right—Regulation Isn’t Enough, We Need to Ban Fracking

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/07/bernie-sanders-right-regulation-isnt-enough-we-need-ban-fracking

We see this currently with the spread of Zika. The warmer temperatures provide ideal conditions for insects such as mosquitos to breed across a much a broader area. This allows viruses to spread to areas they’ve never been before and infect populations that have not developed any immune system defenses.

Given what is at risk, it is indefensible that Clinton merely wants to regulate fracking. She maintains that she will implement safeguards such as controlling methane emissions, protecting local water supplies, and requiring disclosure of the chemicals used. Implementation and enforcement of regulations have proven difficult and ineffective at the state and federal levels. Simply put, regulations will not make fracking safe.

But more importantly, the key issue is that Clinton’s promise to regulate fracking, even if kept, misses the point. It is not just about the immediate threat that fracking poses to the health of our communities and our environment, but the threat posed to our very existence by the climate crisis.

As a nurse, I see the debilitating effects of illness and injury every day. I see patients struggling asthma, heart disease, and cancer. I know the role climate change plays in these illnesses.

And I know that the way to protect workers, communities, and the environment is to ban fracking – exactly as only one candidate states unequivocably, Bernie Sanders. This isn’t just a political issue. This is a life or death issue.

[Baobab]

1. T-Tip bans banning fracklng

FYI

Nobody seems to know that yet.