Pro Fracking Turns No Fracking
Pro Fracking Turns No Fracking
by Michael Silverstein and Kay Wood
November 14, 2014, thebigbelch.com
The Pew Research Center does regular polling on a variety of issues, including the energy kind. And just released Pew polling data on the public’s attitude toward fracking reveals something very interesting. Last March a Pew poll found that Americans approved of fracking by 10 points, 48-38%. The just released poll found that they oppose it, 47-41%. Like so many other things that seem good until you find out more about them, fracking’s popularity diminishes as its consequences become better understood. Or to put this another way, in this energy realm, familiarity breeds contempt
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Michael Silverstein is a long time environmental writer, and former senior editor at Bloomberg. Kay Wood is the author of an environmental graphic novel, The Big Belch.
