Persuasive Essay On Fracking

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Hydraulic fracturing, or it’s more common name fracking, has been a very debatable topic for decades. Fracking is when chemicals, water and sand are pumped into the ground to break apart rock so that natural gas can be released. Not only is fracking obviously bad for the environment, but it also has many impacts on the people that surround the area. Fracking has short term benefits, but long term consequences and impacts to the entire ecosystem. Fracking that is done today can affect our future generations for many years and generations to come. Although hydraulic fracking may reduce our dependency of oil on other countries and stabilize our economy, fracking has way too many environmental and health impacts; therefore proving that fracking is problematic and should not be an energy resource that countries depend on.
Hydraulic fracturing is not a dependable resource because of all the environmental impacts. There is only one Earth and humans are destroying it and causing permanent damage, as well as using too many resources too quickly. Although Natural gas has the word “natural” in …show more content…

Climate change causes rising sea level, the ocean becoming more acidic, extreme weather, El Nino, melting ice caps, drought and many other things. With the weather changing so quickly, humans can’t adapt and can get easily sick and can get diseases. Extreme heat can cause dehydration. With the sea level rising, cities becoming flooded, people were forced to leave their homes and people can possibly die from this. This is all obviously bad but also easily preventable. Natural gas is a fossil fuel and the name is very misleading and people can easily assume it is better than oil or coal because of its name but it’s just as bad for the environment and it is contributing to climate change more than any other fossil

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