A Mother’s Day Letter to the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama

A Mother’s Day Letter to the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama by Angela Monti Fox, mother of Gasland filmmaker, Josh Fox, May 12, 2012, The Mothers Project
Scientists are just beginning to address questions about the impact of drilling and fracking on children’s health. We support and encourage this ongoing inquiry. But we also believe that—until the answers are in, and in the face of fundamental uncertainties—benefit of the doubt belongs to our children, not to the things that threaten them. We are guided by these truths, which we hold to be self-evident:
We know that water is life.
We know that methane is explosive.
We know that groundwater, once contaminated, cannot be cleaned up.
We know that we cannot shop for clean air.
We know that drilling and fracking operations require hundreds of truck trips per well and that many of these trucks haul poisonous chemicals.
We know that accidents happen.
We know that toxic injuries in pregnancy and early childhood have lifelong consequences.
We know that you shouldn’t break something that you can’t fix.

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