{"id":2323,"date":"2014-12-02T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:43:40","slug":"fracking-risks-compared-to-asbestos-and-other-environmental-and-health-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2014-12-02\/fracking-risks-compared-to-asbestos-and-other-environmental-and-health-dangers\">Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;\">While the title of the new British government report\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It<\/em>\u00a0sounds cheery, the news it contained about\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\">fracking<\/a>, among other environmentally dubious technologies, was anything but.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/377946\/14-1190b-innovation-managing-risk-evidence.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">annual report<\/a>\u00a0of the government chief scientific advisor featured a lot of \u201cbetter living through science\u201d-type happy talk about scientific and technological advances, but warned, \u201cCompetition is becoming ever more fierce, vital\u00a0global resources are dwindling and environmental problems\u00a0are mounting, making innovation an ever-present challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">It\u2019s a case that University of Sussex professor Andy Stirling makes strongly in a chapter entitled \u201cMaking Choices in the Face of Uncertainty: Strengthening Innovation Democracy,\u201d using fracking and the\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/coal-mining-pollution\/\">fossil fuel<\/a>\u00a0industry in general as an example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">\u201cHistory presents plenty of examples of innovation\u00a0trajectories that later proved to be problematic\u2014for\u00a0instance, involving asbestos, benzene, thalidomide, dioxins,\u00a0lead in petrol, tobacco, many pesticides,\u00a0mercury, chlorine and endocrine-disrupting compounds, as\u00a0well as CFCs, high-sulphur fuels and fossil fuels in general,\u201d he writes. \u201cIn all these and many other cases, delayed recognition\u00a0of adverse effects incurred not only serious environmental\u00a0or health impacts, but massive expense and reductions in competitiveness for firms and economies persisting in\u00a0the wrong path. Innovations\u00a0reinforcing fossil fuel energy strategies\u2014such as hydraulic\u00a0fracturing\u2014arguably offer a contemporary prospective\u00a0example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers. While the title of the new British government report\u00a0Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It\u00a0sounds cheery, the news it contained about\u00a0fracking, among other environmentally dubious technologies, was anything but. The\u00a0annual report\u00a0of the government chief scientific advisor featured a lot of \u201cbetter living through science\u201d-type happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1571,331,412],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-environmental-risks","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}