Week #4

January 28^th, 2013

Having such a primitive perspective and knowledge of the most pressing global environmental factor, I can hardly begin to sift through what may me important, but here goes.

I feel like everyone is vying for their cause to be the most important and destitution will rain upon us if we don’t fix that problem now. But perhaps a more overall look would be best. How about something to do with a few things that are co-dependent on one another - Natural gas, shale and gasoline! Fracking is becoming a more common term people hear about and unfortunately is getting a bad rap by the environmentalists. The US is full of untapped resources that could not only get us off foreign oil, but facilitate in finding better ways of extracting it, becoming self-sufficient and providing more American jobs. Fracking would thus provide all of those aforementioned options above.

If Rockefeller were to offer me $100 billion dollars to me, I would give half to a fracking company perhaps up in the North East where it is already being done, to continue doing it or begin my own company. I would give 25% to subject matter experts in the field to study and try better ways of perfecting the art of fracking or finding a new way of extracting these resources all together. The remaining percentage of the money would be saved for future endeavors in the field.

The environmentalist platform seems to always be that we are squandering our resources and we must study, protect, and save them. But alas, as humans we are always on the cutting edge of technology and are finding better and newer ways of doing something, thereby saving and protecting said “fill in the blank.” This seems to fit the bill of that very framework and would be doing more than just becoming self-sufficient.