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Environmentalists who oppose the development of shale gas via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) are making a tragic mistake. Shale gas can help lower greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change by displacing coal, which is still easily the world’s primary source of electricity. Gas has far lower emissions of local pollutants that are killing millions of people each year, namely PM2.5 in the still developing countries.
Due to a variety of cost and technical constraints, renewable energy is not the solution some claim that it is.
