Yazar: Kevin Carson. Orijinal makale: On Fracking and Free Lunches. Yayınlanma Tarihi: Tercüman: Zagreides. Grist’te yayınlanan bir makalesinde Amal Ahmed, Physicians for Social Responsibility’in (Sosyal Sorumluluk için Doktorlar) yayınladığı ve polifloroalkil maddelerin veya kısa adıyla PFA’ların petrol ve doğalgaz çıkarmak için yürütülen hidrolik kırma faaliyetlerinde yaygın olarak kullanıldığına dair yeni bir rapordan bahsediyor. PFA’lar sonsuza…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 22 maggio 2023 con il titolo On Fracking and Free Lunches. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Amal Ahmed, sul sito Grist, cita uno studio recente di Physicians for Social Responsibility secondo il quale gli impianti che estraggono gas e petrolio per fratturazione fanno largo uso di sostanze polifluoroalchiliche (pfa). Le…

At Grist, Amal Ahmed quotes a new report from Physicians for Social Responsibility to the effect that polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs, are widely used in oil and natural gas fracking. PFAs are a forever chemical — meaning they persist indefinitely in soil and water, and wind up entering the food chain — linked to “birth…

The Norfolk Southern disaster in East Palestine has raised numerous issues of corporate malfeasance, and how it is enabled by corporate collusion with the state. Some of that, as we saw in December, is the federal government’s protection of the railroad industry from labor action against its intolerable work hours and lack of sick leave,…

There currently exist two very real and ever wicked threats to human civilization. Those threats are a looming environmental crisis and nuclear war. As different as the two appear, these threats are not isolated from one another — they are congruent. The growing environmental crisis is well documented, but the root ills are not well…