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TWO REVIEWS: “The Real Cost of Fracking” by Bamberger and Oswald and "Weird Life" by David Toomey
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food“The Real Cost of Fracking” by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, Boston, Beacon Press, 2014.
For an excellent summary of the reason for fracking, its usefulness, and its abuses, read and study this book’s Introduction.
For the technical details on how gas drilling is done, its geology, the drilling and fracking processes, the chemistry, and the effect on aquifers and communities, read the Appendix on page 181ff.
The individual chapters focus on personal histories, the destruction of property, the pay-offs for silence about procedures, and the creation of unsafe drinking water. All are told in agonizing detail by several families who have experienced the loss of their property and sane living.
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own“Weird Life--The Search For Life That is Very, Very Different From Our Own,” by David Toomey, W.W.Norton, New York, 2014.
Do read the Preface for a brief history of the discovery of life’s diversity and complexity. The rest of the book explores weirdness in life that is “not descended” from ancestral life on Earth
After considering extremeophiles, the author discusses life’s origins, its definition, possible locations, and means of becoming. I found his descriptions of Mars, Europa and Titan interesting, as are his definitions of life, its evidence, and its chemical complexity
For an excellent summary of the reason for fracking, its usefulness, and its abuses, read and study this book’s Introduction.
For the technical details on how gas drilling is done, its geology, the drilling and fracking processes, the chemistry, and the effect on aquifers and communities, read the Appendix on page 181ff.
The individual chapters focus on personal histories, the destruction of property, the pay-offs for silence about procedures, and the creation of unsafe drinking water. All are told in agonizing detail by several families who have experienced the loss of their property and sane living.
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own“Weird Life--The Search For Life That is Very, Very Different From Our Own,” by David Toomey, W.W.Norton, New York, 2014.
Do read the Preface for a brief history of the discovery of life’s diversity and complexity. The rest of the book explores weirdness in life that is “not descended” from ancestral life on Earth
After considering extremeophiles, the author discusses life’s origins, its definition, possible locations, and means of becoming. I found his descriptions of Mars, Europa and Titan interesting, as are his definitions of life, its evidence, and its chemical complexity
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