I viewed Gas land part one and Gas land part two about a year ago, and what I found out was both illuminating and dismaying. I had to watch the documentary twice to grasp the severity and comprehend what the energy companies were doing and how they were going about extracting the source of energy from the environment. The Impact on the environment can be catastrophic for all of the small waterways, which feed into bigger waterways, and eventually into the ocean. Amy Myers Jaffe Executive director for energy and sustainability, University of California, Davis is an advocate of drilling for natural gas or “Fracking”. She is also an expert on global energy policy, geopolitical risk, and energy and sustainability. Myers Jaffe argues that since “energy is a fundamental service for daily living”, it is necessary to search and extract new energy sources. She contends that since the United States use such a massive amount of energy, when those energy sources are used up, we cannot replace that energy with non-fossil fuels and it’s impossible to convert renewable energy into energy that can replace what is consumed by the United States. Amy contends …show more content…
She argues that, ‘Virtually overnight, the shale gas revolution has reversed these global energy scarcity woes.” Shale gas has already emerged as a major new source of energy in North America”. Meyers Jaffe contends that Fracking is giving our country “Independence” from energy producing