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I happen to live in a very old European village that is being damaged by fracking to the point where homes became uninhabitable. I’ve been fighting the governme

I happen to live in a very old European village that is being damaged by fracking to the point where homes became uninhabitable. I’ve been fighting the government for the money to replace the house they’ve forced me out of for the past 5 years. There are some who respond to you by saying this can be solved with money but that ignores a significant humanitarian cost. Responsible parties will do whatever they can to shirk responsibility and affected parties will have to waste years of their lives trying to regain safe shelter through bureaucracy. Sometimes it feels hopeless.

jacquesm 3y ago
That's just the local version of the resource curse. Imagine living in a whole country like that. The world economy is when you look at it rationally completely bonkers, we dig stuff up in one place to burn it elsewhere, we make stuff here to use it thousands of km away. Without all that cheap transportation, which in itself is a big contributor to the emissions we'd be forced to solve our problems locally. All that we do today is to destroy the planet whilst pretend externalizing the costs. But it is one planet, and there is no externalization happening so in the end it all goes down, the only thing we are doing is to lower the lows and to raise the peaks temporarily at the expense of the future.