Today we hear from American biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, giving the keynote address to the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change.

Sandra takes a lyrical look at the interconnections between molecules, organisms, ecosystems, logistics and capitalism in the story of fracking.

This is an edited extract of Sandra Steingraber’s keynote address to the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change, in May 2018. The Tribunal held it’s hearings at Oregon State University, in the US.
Recordings of the tribunal and submissions made to it from around the world can be found at www.tribunalonfracking.org

Earth Matters #1151 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.