This is one of those books that I simply had to force myself to finish. Not because it was poorly written, uninteresting, or unimportant but because it infuriated me and I feel so helpless and hopeless about the problems and processes described. It is utterly incomprehensible that we as individuals and as a nation and inhabitants of the one and only place we have to live continue to befoul and destroy the very systems that give us life. This particular book chronicles the contamination of the water supply of 3 families in the western Pennsylvania towns of Amity and Prosperity by hydraulic fracturing. As if that weren’t bad enough, the very agencies which were supposed to protect the people proved inadequate at best and in the control of the very entities they were supposed to be monitoring and regulating. It is not an easy read but it is excruciatingly important.
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