Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?
machinin@lemmy.world 5 days agoSorry, no greenwashing, just guessing. I just haven’t seen the criticisms like we had 10 years ago.
I agree that politicians don’t have much reason to speak against it without pressure, but I haven’t seen any pressure from citizens about it recently.
I could very much be out of the loop, so if you have any recent articles critical of the industry, I’d be happy to see them.
memfree@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I believe the main issue is that it doesn’t get ‘clicks’ these days because everyone already knows about it. “Dog bites man” doesn’t get as many clicks as “Man bites dog” and all that. Still, a quick search brought up a couple articles from the last 12 months that weren’t stifled:
tangential: …npr.org/…/methane-emissions-much-higher-than-gas…
machinin@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Thanks, I do appreciate this. It’s good to be reminded.