An individual’s ability to influence the course of climate change was a central question in an Environment Forum session on moving towards a carbon-free future.
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Jun 24 2012
Fracking, the controversial drilling method of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth, was on trial at the Environment Forum, as Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp took to the stage to advocate for fracking’s potential utility and for tighter regulation of the natural gas industry.
Methane leaks contaminating water supply was a central issue in the debate over the environmental risk fracking poses. “The environmental implications of natural gas extraction are real, and they are largely not being addressed properly,” Krupp said. “The industry is in denial and hiding behind the idea that the fractures aren’t causing water contamination."
Jun 23 2012
“We’re moving ahead of what’s normal (in terms of climate change),” Executive Editor of National Geographic Dennis Dimick told the crowd at the Environment Forum’s opening plenary discussion. “So perhaps what we are really living in is the new abnormal.”
Jun 23 2012
The Institute’s 2012 Environment Forum began with a sweeping exploration of big ideas— developing the next generation of naturalists and bringing back extinct species, to name a few. Harvard biologist and author of the new The Social Conquest of Earth E.O. Wilson kicked off the forum in conversation with Institute Executive Vice President Elliot Gerson.
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