Fracking.

Let's talk about petroleum, and natural gas fracturing (fracking).

Petroleum. Without it, the current world as we know it would be tossed upside down. Transportation of goods would cease. Your daily commute time would increase. Many of the products we enjoy would cease to exist. Let's face it, the rubber coating that is applied to the hull of submarines that allows them to more easily escape sonar detection and become stealth ships of war, would not be available. Who civilizations would be brought to their knees.

So powerful is petroleum, that without it, many of us would also cease to exist. Its impact on socio-cultural aspects of industrialized nations is often taken for granted, and often even marginalized.

Petroleum makes our world go 'round!

However! Petroleum extraction, processing, and refining is incredibly toxic to our environment. If you're not immediately inhaling it's byproducts, you're likely eating its contaminants through seafood, beef, pork, chicken, and even vegetables.
All the waste that is disposed of in our fresh-water lakes and streams can possibly contaminate not just you directly, but also the aqua-life such as fish, crawdads, plants, trees, and any animal or creature drinking from it. And just where do all streams and lakes flow? To the oceans no less! Infecting tuna, shrimp, halibut, crab, dolphins, wales, you name it!

I don't mean to sound paranoid, but I am intending to sound off an increasingly important alarm.