NIMBY

Fracktivists for Global Warming: How Celebrity NIMBYism Turned Environmentalism Against Natural Gas

by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus 03/07/2013

Over the last year, celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo, Mario Batali, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, and Matt Damon have spoken out against the expansion of natural gas drilling. “Fracking kills,” says Ono, who has a country home in New York. “It threatens the air we breathe,” says Redford.   read more »

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