Fracking IS fraud... a horribly destructive swindle
subtly perpetrated and it starts with the word.
When it comes to fracking the misnomer is king. Obfuscation
is emperor. Deceptive language is everything. Verbally speaking, the wolf is
not in sheep’s clothing – it’s a troll wearing a tutu with a diamante tiara and
it’s not a pretty sight.
We all know it's not right but the costume
is so expensive, the seams so slick, the sequins so well applied some people are
having difficulty telling it’s really a troll.
Surely if, as dear old Willy Shakespeare said, “a rose by any other name would smell as
sweet” then a dog turd called something else should still stink... For some
reason it doesn’t seem to work that way.
It’s like when the doctor says ‘this may be
uncomfortable’ you know it’s going to hurt like hell and you will be screaming
for your mum. But there is an assumption that the human brain falls for these
verbal dexterities and sometimes it does.
Why aren’t ‘pay-day loans’ called ‘hi rate debt cons’?
Why isn’t ‘meat’ called ‘carcass’ and ‘offal’ called
‘organs &guts’?
Why aren’t ‘sales’ called ‘the –stuff-we-couldn’t-get
rid-of -before –the-next-lot-of-crap-comes in’?
And why isn’t Fracking called Fracturing?
The answer is simple. People who are used to getting
their own way like to dress a sows ear up like a silk purse. If it helps their
cause to pretend the grass is pink and the sky is made of lemonade – they will.
If you call it as it is – if you said we are going
to FRACTURE the ground to extract gas, fewer people would let it slip by. If
these profit driven corpmegatrocities called if Fracturing even people who
don’t get it or don’t give a shit - would.
(N.B ‘Corpmegatrocity’
is a large profit driven corporation so huge it ceases to be connected to
humanity and has become an atrocity. [See – we can all make words up])
It’s not Fracking its Fracturing. Fracturing the
earth – the planet - the water tables. Destabilising further our already
unstable thin crusted planet. Breaking stuff. It’s breaking the environment for
profit and so we can go on pretending we don’t have to control our consumption.
I would like to suggest – as I have on this blog
before – that there should be a connection where there is a consequence. So for
example – I said that people with private health insurance should not be
allowed to pontificate and certainly not legislate on the NHS. Conversely I
would like to have suggested that those who are looking forward to the profits
of shale gas extracted by Fracturing the ground should be forced to live in the
fractured areas – drink the water – deal with all the horrible chemical mess
and nature damaging results. But the thing with damaging the planet is that you
cannot contain those consequences.
WWF claimed in a Guardian article last year that the
world lost HALF its species in the last 40 years due to pollution, climate
change and over-fishing. That is, I suggest, a scary statistic by any measure.
But the fact that you or I may be doing our best to limit our carbon footprint
etc doesn’t alter the fact that this goes on apace. The crap outcome will not be
limited to those responsible and that is why we have to force the profit mongers
to ease off. Ditto Fracturing.
Fracking means Fracturing / Breaking
Pollution means poisoning.
Climate change means – moving towards an
uninhabitable planet. And to those morons who keep banging on about the fact
that the climate has changed radically before – er yes – but humans weren’t
around then.
Fracking is just a made up word to polish the turd,
to put pink fondant icing on the mouldy bun, it’s the diamante thong on the
haggard old arse – it’s a lie.
Fracking is Fracturing – its breaking and damaging the
place we live, for money.
Let’s just say it how it is.
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On the subject of environmental vandalism do check out my book Casey & the Surfmen