Fracking Threatens Everyone Analysis

We rely on so many resources to help us advance as we continue into the future, but we are relying on them too much and it’s threatening out world. Try to imagine yourself and your life without resources, no oil, plastic, wood, etc., what could you survive without? Reading the articles, “The Curse of Water Bottles” and “Fracking Threatens Everyone” we see just which resources aren’t completely necessary. Certain resources had a period where they were the rise of mankind, but to this day they are the cause of the falling of mankind. For starters, looking at “The Curse of Water Bottles” using water bottles isn’t always the best idea. Granted, when water bottles first came out, it was amazing. They’re easy for parties, traveling, going to the zoo, but it also proves how lazy we have become. We can’t get up and get a glass of water anymore. This increases the demand for water bottles which increases the manufacturing of them, but this increases the danger that are involved. “If you filled a fourth of any
Fracking occurs when “water wells become plugged up with sand and other minerals. A machine is brought in to inject water into the well at extreme pressure to blow out the tiny cracks and fissures in the rock through which the water flow.” (Fracking Threatens Everyone) Completely harmless. Or so it seemed at that time. Today dealing with increased pollution, it contaminated this ‘wonderful’ thing. “Fracking injects large quantities of water under great pressure with sand and many toxic chemicals mixed in. Many of these are can cause cancer…Unfortunately, when fracking goes wrong, sources of drinking water ca be ruined and all different types of pollution can happen in a second.” (Fracking Threatens Everyone) Just like that, in a blink of an eye, something wonderful was turned around and causes more problems than we can