As The Sacremento Bee points out, Gov. Jerry Brown of California has based his legacy on fighting climate change.
It’s more than a little curious, then, that he so strongly supported the expansion of hydraulic fracturing in his state. Many citizens are concerned that farmers are irrigating their crops with fracking wastewater even as enormous amounts of water are being diverted for fracking during record droughts. They are perplexed as to why fracking sites are being built in residential neighborhoods, mostly populated by poor minorities.
While Gov. Brown has his own climate change documentary to tout, the LA Times took notice of our “Dear Governor Brown” screening, which confronts the Governor on the perceived hypocrisy of his stance:
Brown was featured in a much different light in another movie called “Dear Governor Brown” that was produced by environmental activists. It also was screened in Paris on Saturday and is aimed at getting Brown to take a harder line against fracking in California.
“By backing fracking, Gov. Brown threatens to undermine everything California is doing in the fight against global warming,” said a statement from Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity.
The panel discussion following the film was full of passionately presented, useful information thanks to the participation of Wenonah Hauter (Executive Director, Food & Water Watch), Sandra Steingraber (author of Living Dowstream) and Kassie Siegel (Director, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity).
Millions of Californians are waiting eagerly to see if Gov. Brown will truly make climate change history by taking the inevitable step away from fossil fuels before it is too late.