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I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth | Rebecca Solnit
We’ve been making short-term decisions about our planet for a long time. The consequences are horrific to behold
The slashing rain turned the dirt roads into muddy creeks, the bus’s wipers shoved the torrent back and forth across the windshield, and Don Schreiber handled the wheel like Sandra Bullock in Speed as he wisecracked from under a big gray moustache. We’d made the long drive out the afternoon before across beautiful landscapes, with the bare red cliffs and silhouetted mountains Georgia O’Keeffe loved to paint giving way to forests and great expanses of land like the Schreibers’ ranch that looked flat from a distance but up close revealed billowing swells and gullies descending into small canyons. We are trying to be good ancestors, to make a world in which the land that fed many species, including ours, in the past will feed them in the future, to take the fork in the road ahead that leads to well-being in the short term and the long.
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