Naomi Klein, in her latest essay This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, starts with the basic assumption that without a radical change in the way in which people live, produce and manage their economic activities, there is no way to avoid environmental destruction. 15 years after the publication of No logo, the bible of the anti-globalization
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a technique introduced in the first decades of the 20th century to extract natural gas and oil from shale rocks, i.e. exfoliating rocks that lie deep below the Earth’s surface. How it works Hydraulic fracturing consists in perforating the ground until shale gas deposits are found and injecting pressurised
Something is changing in the world’s energy market: shale gas, gas extracted from porous rocks through fracking, plays now the lead role.
