Tag: fracking
-
Henrik Ibsen, fracking, and jobs
In Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” we see the folly of a community making a decision based on economic considerations. Today in making moral decisions, such as those related to fracking, we must look at more than the jobs created.
-
The role of government in environmental issues
By the late 1930s the logging industry had destroyed the forests of the Southeast. Land that is today Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests is lush with fir-spruce trees because the government bought and reforested the land. We need government regulations.
Nancy Werking Poling 