” Its subject is fracking.

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Setting the stage for her indictment of fracking, Food and Water Watch founder and CEO Wehnonah Hauter devotes the opening chapters of Frackopoly to a concise, critical history of the industry that promotes it.

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  Strongly opposed to further extraction of fossil fuels in any form, Hauter sees so-called “cap and trade” programs, such as California has enacted, and even a carbon tax as half-measures that fail to meet the climate change imperative.

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Wehnonah Hauter will speak about Frackopoly tonight at Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol.

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