Eating Our Young

Does it really have to come to this?  Are we going to destroy our national environment with our addiction to fossil fuel?


The West has been the national dumping ground for too long, and doesn't have ample rain and trees to cover it up.  Fossil fuels have powered the American way of life, but now we are starting to eat our young.  I mean by that, we are now destroying the special character of entire counties, we are removing mountain tops to get coal, we are pumping salty water onto our agricultural lands.  The good news is America has the best scientific minds on earth, and there are better ways to fuel progress than dangerous nuclear and fossil fuels.  Google "frack field" for some images of landscapes laid barren, and then on youtube, search “frac job” and see and hear the racket of huge pumps injecting millions of gallons of water.  If you lease mineral rights under your ranch land, next time consider leasing to a solar power or wind power company instead.  Clean wind and solar installations operate for decades, don't require constant heavy truck traffic, or mess up the water supply.  Thank-you, fossil fuel, for bringing America forward, but you are going too far with fracking the homeland. We don't want you eating our young.