When Your Science Runs Into A Policy

The First Line In The First Gasland Is: “i’m Not A Pessimist. I’ve Always Had A Great Deal Of Faith In People That We Won’t Succumb To Frenzy Or Rage Or Greed. That We’ll Figure Out A Solution Without Destroying The Things That We Love.” I Have Not Lost That Sense.

It Is An Incredibly Hopeful Experience Watching Communities Come Together And Actually Reassemble Democracy. The Democracy's Been Taken Away From Us. But They're Reinventing Democracy Out There In Rural Pennsylvania, In Philadelphia, In Pittsburgh.

Every Single Dollar Spent Lobbying A Legislator On Behalf Of Oil And Gas Is A Toxic Dollar That Undermines Public Health And Safety Laws That Protect Americans. That's Contamination Of The Political System.

There Are Regulations All Over The Spectrum That Have To Be Done To The Existing Situation Right Now. But The Only Policy That Makes Sense Is A Nationwide Moratorium: No New Fracking, No New Fracked Wells.

I'm A Night Owl, And Luckily My Profession Supports That. The Best Ideas Come To Me In The Dead Of Night.